MEDIA RESOURCES
Gleason, J. B., & Ratner, N. B. (1998). Language acquisition. In
J. B. Gleason & N. B. Ratner (Eds.), Psycholinguistics (2nd
ed., pp. 347–407). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt.at about 1 year, and have mastered the basic structures of
language by about 3 years of age.Carroll, D. W. (2004). Psychology of language (4th ed.).
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.Key TERMS
Anaphoric inference, 310
Causal inference, 310
Coherence, 310
Garden path sentence, 305
Given–new contract, 315
Inference, 309
Instrument inference, 310
Interactionist approach to parsing, 306
Language, 294
Late closure, 305
Lexical ambiguity, 301
Lexical decision task, 301
Lexical priming, 302
Lexicon, 297
Morpheme, 297
Parsing, 304
Phoneme, 297
Phonemic restoration effect, 298
Psycholinguistics, 296
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, 317Semantics, 304
Situation model, 311
Speech segmentation, 299
Syntactic priming, 316
Syntax, 304
Syntax-fi rst approach to parsing, 305
Temporary ambiguity, 304
Word frequency, 300
Word frequency effect, 301
Word superiority effect, 300DEMONSTRATION Answers to Late Closure Demonstration on page 305
- |The shoppers felt||the fur coat was overpriced|
Words added to fi rst phrase: |the fur coat| - |Because he always jogs||a mile seems like a short distance to him|
Words added to fi rst phrase: |a mile| - |The mechanic maintained||the truck was working beautifully|
Words added to fi rst phrase: |the truck|
Media RESOURCES
The Cognitive Psychology
Book Companion Website
http://www.cengage.com/psychology/goldstein
Prepare for quizzes and exams with online resources—
including a glossary, fl ashcards, tutorial quizzes, crossword
puzzles, and more.
CogLab
To experience these experiments for yourself, go to coglab.
wadsworth.com. Be sure to read each experiment’s setup
instructions before you go to the experiment itself. Otherwise,
you won’t know which keys to press.
Primary Labs
Word superiority How speed of identifying a letter compares
when the letter is isolated or in a word. (p. 300)
Lexical decision Demonstration of the lexical decision task.
(p. 301)
Related Labs
Categorical perception—identifi cation Demonstration of
categorical perception based on the identifi cation of different
sound categories.Categorical perception—discrimination Demonstration of
categorical perception based on the ability to discriminate
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