Introducing Psycholinguistics

Glossary

Introduction

psycholinguistics; mental lexicon; representation; process; bottom-up; top-down; interaction; neurophysiology; functional magnetic resonance imaging; fMRI; PET scan; positron emission tomography; CAT scan; magnetoencephalography; EEG / electroencephalography; ERP / event-related potential; ERF / event-related magnetic field;

Planning

slip of the tongue; speech error; pause; silent pause; repeat; self-interruption; verbal filler; declarative knowledge; procedural knowledge; situational knowledge; situational model; conceptualisation; formulation; articulation; filled pause; hesitation; pre-verbal message; mentalese; articulatory pause; delimitative pause; prosody; physiological pause; macroplanning; speech act; linearization; instrumentality; microplanning; grammatical encoding; hemisphere; procedural memory; phonological encoding; constituent assembly; content word; functional processing; lexical selection; lemma; lexeme; function assignment; thematic structure; open class; positional processing; syntactic frame; exchange; category; phonetic plan; stranding; syntactic priming; double-object construction; deep structure; surface structure; derivation (syntax); Derivational Theory of Complexity; main clause; subordinate clause; subordination index; syntax and speech; global ambiguity; standing ambiguity; local ambiguity; temporary ambiguity; pre-pausal lengthening; connected speech process; CSP; wanna-contraction;

Finding words

speech error; perseveration; lexicalisation; lexical selection; activation; substitution; blend; frequency; predictability; corpus (pl. corpora); Guessing Game; Cloze task; transitional probability; slots-and-fillers; mis-selection error; mis-ordering error; anticipation; exchange; omission; addition; antonym; synonym; associative; collocation; malapropism; serial; serial search; connectionism; interactive activation; inhibition; association norm;

Building words

morpheme; allomorph; phoneme; allophone; speech error; local syntactic organisation; functional processing; positional processing; tip of the tongue (TOT); gender, grammatical; anomia; inflection (morphology); irregular; full-listing hypothesis; morpheme shift; multiword unit; accommodation; derivation (morphology); suffix; prefix; productivity; lexical stress error; lexeme; word form; grammatical encoding; phonological encoding; function word; phonetic plan; closed class; mis-selection error; substitution; mis-ordering error; anticipation; exchange; omission; nonword; phonetic similarity; spoonerism; real word bias; lexicality; tongue twister;

Monitoring and repair

SLIP; repair; monitoring; interruption; edit; editing expression; restart; revision; inappropriateness; main interruption rule; covert repair; prosodic marking; stress pair; inner speech; subvocalisation; galvanic skin response;

Gesturing

gesture; symbolic gesture; iconic gesture; indexical gesture; batonic gesture;

Perception

hemispherical specialisation; right ear advantage (REA); dichotic listening; priming; prime; probe; phonetic feature; diphone; variability; exemplar; spectrogram; formant; streaming, perceptual; phoneme restoration; cue integration; McGurk effect; aspiration; cue trading; coarticulation; signal continuity; cocktail party effect; concatenated speech; word superiority effect; visual buffer; working memory; eye movement; fixation; saccade; deep orthography; shallow orthography; categorical perception; voice onset time (VOT); Ganong effect;

Spoken word recognition

pre-lexical analysis; contact; activation; access; recognition; mental lexicon; segmentation; slip of the ear; phonetic feature; gating task; metrical segmentation strategy; MSS; vowel harmony; Possible Word Constraint; bottom-up; top-down; parallel; serial access; word-initial cohort; Cohort; left-to-right processing; selection; uniqueness point; recognition point; deviation point; lexical decision; lexical access; pre-selection; integration; TRACE model; word monitoring; frequency effect; frequency; lexical frequency; recency; contingency of choice; competition; neighbourhood; naming; neighbourhood density; morphological decomposition; repetition priming; transparency; opacity; prefix stripping;

Visual word recognition

Zipf's law; regularity; consistency; body, of word; progressive demasking; logogen; search model; bin model; serial search; serial; serial access; interactive activation; inhibition; grapheme-phoneme conversion (GPC); graphophonic transposition; phonological recoding; subvocalisation; phonological loop; orthography; pseudohomophone; dual-route model; category monitoring; homophone; polysemy; dyslexia; dysgraphia; developmental dyslexia; acquired dyslexia; double dissociation; surface dyslexia; phonological dyslexia; nonsemantic reading; deep dyslexia; paralexias;

Syntactic sentence processing

parsing; derivation (syntax); underlying form; logical form; sentence-picture matching; chunking; clausal hypothesis; Derivational Theory of Complexity; click location; clausal structuring; clausal processing; on-line; off-line; prose; normal prose; anomalous prose; scrambled prose; Jabberwocky; phoneme monitoring; garden path; reduced relative; sausage machine; parser; phrase marker; parsing strategies; Late Closure; minimal attachment; eye-tracking; regression; backtracking; category ambiguity; Right Association; lexical ambiguity; syntactic ambiguity; Recency Principle; Predicate Proximity; rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP);

Interpreting sentences

immediacy of interpretation; reversibility; eye movement; thematic processor; first-pass; second pass; plausibility; restrictive relative; referential hypothesis; subordinate clause; lexical preference; self-paced reading; transitivity ambiguity; adjunct; thematic role; prosody; stress shift; weak interactive; strong interactive; constraint-based processing; unrestricted race model; good-enough processing; shallow processing;

Making connections

mental model; inference; coherence; cohesion; anaphor; antecedent; bridging inference; definiteness; pronominal reference; instance; instantiation; given; new information; accented; filler-gap dependency; filler; gap; trace; empty category; wh-word; distance effect; active filler hypothesis; pseudogap; gap as first resort; gap as last resort; lexical expectation; most recent filler hypothesis;

Architecture of the processing system

modularity; informationally encapsulated; automaticity; Stroop effect; Broca's aphasia; Broca's area; Wernicke's aphasia; agrammatic speech / agrammatism; word deafness; peripheral process; central process; hemispherical specialisation; specific language impairment; chatterbox syndrome; Williams syndrome; MEG; domain-specific; judgement task; model; parallel; parallel distributed processing (PDP);

General linguistic terms

deep structure; underlying form; surface structure; subordinate clause; adjunct; open class; content word; closed class; function word; antonym; synonym; collocation; prosody; accented; connected speech process; lexeme; word form; morpheme; allomorph; derivation (morphology); regularity; productivity; suffix; transparency; opacity; phoneme; allophone; deixis;

Experimental tasks and resources

click location; Cloze task; continuation selection; elicitation; tongue twister; eye-tracking; first-pass; backtracking; self-paced reading; rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP); anomalous prose; monitoring / detection task; shadowing; lexical decision; naming; repetition task; gating task; masking; semantic priming; stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA); single modality; cross-modal; corpus (pl. corpora); PET scan; positron emission tomography; MEG; EEG / electroencephalography; ERF / event-related magnetic field; ERP / event-related potential; word monitoring; magnetoencephalography; dichotic switch monitoring; fMRI; functional magnetic resonance imaging;

Language impairment

aphasia; Wernicke's aphasia; Broca's aphasia; dysgraphia; dyslexia; developmental dyslexia; surface dyslexia; phonological dyslexia; deep dyslexia; nonsemantic reading; word deafness; specific language impairment; chatterbox syndrome; Williams syndrome;