Test Bank for Language in Mind, An Introduction to Psycholinguistics 2nd Edition, 2e by Julie Sedivy

CLICK TO ACCESS: Test Bank for Language in Mind, An Introduction to Psycholinguistics 2nd Edition, 2e by Julie Sedivy

ISBN-13: 9781605357058

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Science, Language, and the Science of Language

1.1 What Do Scientists Know about Language?

1.2 Why Bother?

 

2 Origins of Human Language

2.1 Why Us?

2.2 The Social Underpinnings of Language

2.3 The Structure of Language

2.4 The Evolution of Speech

2.5 How Humans Invent Languages

2.6 Language and Genes

2.7 Survival of the Fittest Language?

 

3 Language and the Brain

3.1 Evidence from Damage to the Brain

3.2 Mapping the Healthy Human Brain

3.3 The Brain in Real-Time Action

 

4 Learning Sound Patterns

4.1 Where Are the Words?

4.2 Infant Statisticians

4.3 What Are the Sounds?

4.4 Learning How Sounds Pattern

4.5 Some Patterns Are Easier to Learn than Others

 

5 Learning Words

5.1 Words and Their Interface to Sound

5.2 Reference and Concepts

5.3 Understanding Speakers’ Intentions

5.4 Parts of Speech

5.5 The Role of Language Input

5.6 Complex Words

 

6 Learning the Structure of Sentences

6.1 The Nature of Syntactic Knowledge

6.2 Learning Grammatical Categories

6.3 How Abstract Is Early Syntax?

6.4 Complex Syntax and Constraints on Learning

6.5 What Do Children Do with Input?

 

CLICK TO ACCESS: Test Bank for Language in Mind, An Introduction to Psycholinguistics 2nd Edition, 2e by Julie Sedivy

7 Speech Perception

7.1 Coping with the Variability of Sounds

7.2 Integrating Multiple Cues

7.3 Adapting to a Variety of Talkers

7.4 The Motor Theory of Speech Perception

 

8 Word Recognition

8.1 A Connected Lexicon

8.2 Ambiguity

8.3 Recognizing Spoken Words in Real Time

8.4 Reading Written Words

 

9 Understanding Sentence Structure and Meaning

9.1 Incremental Processing and the Problem of Ambiguity

9.2 Models of Ambiguity Resolution

9.3 Variables That Predict the Difficulty of Ambiguous Sentences

9.4 Making Predictions

9.5 When Memory Fails

9.6 Variable Minds

 

10 Speaking: From Planning to Articulation

10.1 The Space between Thinking and Speaking

10.2 Ordered Stages in Language Production

10.3 Formulating Messages

10.4 Structuring Sentences

10.5 Putting the Sounds in Words

11 Discourse and Inference

11.1 From Linguistic Form to Mental Models of the World

11.2 Pronoun Problems

11.3 Pronouns in Real Time

11.4 Drawing Inferences and Making Connections

11.5 Understanding Metaphor

12 The Social Side of Language

12.1 Tiny Mind Readers or Young Egocentrics?

12.2 Conversational Inferences: Deciphering What the Speaker Meant

12.3 Audience Design

12.4 Dialogue

13 Language Diversity

13.1 What Do Languages Have in Common?

13.2 Explaining Similarities across Languages

13.3 Words, Concepts, and Culture

13.4 Language Structure and the Connection between Culture and Mind

13.5 One Mind, Multiple Languages