Key concepts from chapters 3 and 4

Ling/Psych 371

April 17, 2000

Chapter 3

sensory store

working memory

chunking

permanent memory (semantic and episodic)

pattern recognition

serial processing vs. parallel processing

bottom-up flow of information vs. top-down flow of information

auomatic tasks/processes vs. controlled tasks/processes

modularity

garden path sentences

Chapter 4

articulatory phonetics

place of articulation

manner of articulation

voiced/voiceless/VOT

stop

fricative

acoustic phonetics

spectrogram and what it shows

formants

formant transitions

context-conditioned variation (the problem of invariance)

auditory vs. phonetic levels of speech perception

categorical perception (identification, discrimination)

binaural/dichotic perception

motor theory of speech perception

phonemic restoration

Neural Networks (e.g., TRACE and PDP)

Nodes

Connections/connection weights

Activations

Thresholds

How neural nets learn

What neural nets "know"