April 26, 2000

lexicon

lexical access

word association test

lexical associates (phonological, semantic)

tip of the tongue phenomenon

reference

semantic relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, incompatibility

semantic features: defining and characteristic features

semantic network

cognitive economy

hierarchical network model

typicality effect

prototypes/basic-level terms

frequency effect

spreading activation model (also Bock and Levelt’s three-level model)

Forster’s search model of lexical access

logogen model of lexical access

cohort model of lexical access

lexical decision task

naming task

phoneme monitoring task

semantic verification task

semantic priming

affix-stripping (morphological decomposition)

how connectionist and formalist models represent morphological knowledge differently

The mid-term will cover the material in chapters 1 through 5, as well as our discussion of primate language studies and neural networks. You will probably find the study guides I handed out for chapters 1-2 and chapters 3-4 helpful in studying for the mid-term.