8. Language

• psycholinguistics / linguistics
• performance vs. competence
• productivity
• regularity
• tacit / explicit knowledge
• linguistic organization
• semantics
• syntax
• phonology
• phonetics
• morpheme
• phoneme
• feature
• Generative Transformational Grammar (Chomsky)
• surface vs. deep structure
• phrase structure
• rewrite rules
• lexical insertion rules
• transformational rules
• phrase structure ambiguity
• spoken word recognition / early encoding
• grammatical / anomalous / ungrammatical strings
• cohort model (Marslen-Wilson)
• word-initial cohort / candidate words
• phoneme restoration effect
• intermodal perception (McGurk effect)
• neuropsychology of spoken word recognition
• visual word perception
• grapheme
• logographic writing systems
• syllabic writing systems
• alphabetic systems
• dual-route model of reading
• whole-word method
• phonics method
• fixations
• saccades
• content words
• function words
• foveal vs. parafoveal processing
• language-specific fixation asymmetry
• grammar & comprehension
• parsing
• automatic activation of word meaning & lexical ambiguity (Swinney)
• syntactic cues - word order strategy, syntactic attributes of cue words, semantic attributes of cue words
• ambiguity
• garden-path sentences
• immediacy assumption
• micropropositions
• macropropositions
• propositional overlap / conceptual coherence
• matching strategy
• bridging inference
• inferences and schema
• comprehension failure