Language in Mind. An introduction to
Psycholinguistics (Summary)
language - ANS-A mental system that has a purpose of
communication among its users
... [Show More] using units (lexical items) with a
possibility to create rules
speaking English - ANS-Making sounds that express users
thoughts
speech community - ANS-a group of people who all code
thoughts into sounds that support their mutual linguistic
understanding
Dialect - ANS-A manifestation of a language
idialect - ANS-An individual manifestation of a language
English as a system - ANS-It can be disrupted. Phon:
sraints/tisnar. Sem: sue bought 2 furnitures
ordinary perspective - ANS-Finite set of rules, unchangable,
prescribed by power. Proper English.
English is a single structured entity in the world that you can use
like a tool if you learn how too
cognitive perspective - ANS-English is a system in the heads of
speakers, that speakers can produce and comprehend
Introspection - ANS-A method of self-observation in which
participants report their thoughts and feelings
Access to mental processes.
Subjective, biased, cultural differences
mother language - ANS-language that branches into daughter
languages
daughter languages - ANS-Languages developing out of the
same parent language; for example, French and Spanish are
daughter languages of Latin.
lexical item - ANS-Unit of language. Associates distinct kind of
information
Committed to memory
Morphological system - ANS-Structure and composition of words
endocentric compounds - ANS-Meaning is more transparent dog
house
exocentric compounds - ANS-Meaning less transparent: hotdog
free morpheme - ANS-a morpheme that can stand alone as a
word
bound morpheme - ANS-morpheme that always attaches to other
morphemes, never existing as a word itself
manner of articulation - ANS-The type of constriction in the vocal
tract
manner of articulation - ANS-The type of constriction in the vocal
tract
consonant - ANS-Pronunciation produced with a constriction
somewhere in the vocal tract
Voicing, place or articulation, manner of articulation
vowel - ANS-Pronunciation produced with no or minimal
constriction in the vocal tract
Height
Blackness
Rounding
Tenseness
syllable - ANS-A unit of organisation comprising one or more
phonemes
phoneme - ANS-smallest distinctive sound unit
Allophone - ANS-variation of a phoneme
verb - ANS-Marks tense, forms participle and past participle,
marks agreement. Head of verb phrase
Noun - ANS-Can pluralise, can appear with ing, needs a
determiner, head of noun phrase
Adjectice - ANS-Takes -er, est or more, most. Head of adjective
phrase
Dissociation argument - ANS-Jump v and jump n - different
syntactic categories, similar meaning
Bank money and bank river - same syntactic category, different
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