May 17, 2000

phrase structure rules

parsing

minimal attachment strategy

late closure

interactive models of parsing (constraint-based lexicalist)

relative clauses/ reduced relative clauses

speech acts (e.g., assertions, requests)

locutionary act

illocutionary act

perlocutionary act

felicity conditions

metaphor

topic (tenor)

vehicle

ground

Which theory of sentence processing assumes modularity?

Which kinds of information seem to have an influence on parsing in the interactive model?

Do people have better memory for sentence form or sentence content?

production error

perception error (and their characteristics)

The Freudian view of speech errors

Fromkin model of speech production (six separate levels)

lexical bias

phonological accomodation

phonemic similarity effect

Dell model of speech production (parallel processing at four separate levels)

shift

exchange/metathesis

anticipation

perseveration

addition

deletion

substitution

blend

phonological bias technique

Categorical perception in infants (sucking, head-turn techniques)

Loss (or attenuation) of sensitivity to non-native contrasts

Criteria for communicative intention (waiting, persistence, development of alternative plans)

child-directed speech

fis phenomenon

reduplicated babbling

variegated babbling

idiomorph

reduction

coalescence

assimilation

reduplication

overextension

underextension

ostensive definitions

cognitive constraints (p. 266)

mutual exclusivity bias

MLU

IPSyn

holophrase

telegraphic speech

wug test

productivity in morphology

overregularization

Are we born with categorical perception? What happens to it during the first year of life?

Why do children make phonological errors when learning language?

How can you describe two-word speech in terms of semantic relations?