Lexicon

Question 1

Mental Lexicon

Answer 1

contains words (lexicon). Seen as seperate from grammar, but they are centracl to various aspects. Degree of seperation between them is not agreed upon

Question 2

Speech segmentation

Answer 2

Infants use statistical computations to discover words. Eg by treating co-occuring syllables as words or using known words to discover new ones.

Question 3

Content words

Answer 3

Carry inherent semantic content or meaning in a sentence. Conveys specific info and are typically nouns, main verbs or adjectives

Question 4

Function words

Answer 4

Primarily serve to specific syntactic and logical relations, structuring. Eg:
- Articles (the, a, an)
- prepositions (on, in, at, over)
- conjunctions ( and, but, or)
- Pronouns (I, you, her)
- Auxiliary verbs (be, have, do)

Question 5

Lexicon development

Answer 5

First words at 6 monts, at 24 months about 50 words

2 yo:
- Far more nouns than verbs
- Even in languages w more verbs

Question 6

Lexical organization

Answer 6

Phonological; by how they sounds

Taxonomically; conceptual relations

Associatively; by how they relate in the world

Question 7

Semantic network

Answer 7

Network w words that are linked. nearby nodes (words) are closer based on some property. Words that share meaning or occur together.

Question 8

Priming studies

Answer 8

Used to know the organization of lexical semantics.
Decide if letter string is a word or not, before that another word is presented

: Faster at identifying DOG if the prev word is taxonomically (cat) or associatively (leash) related, compared to unrelated