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"