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PARAMOUNT PICTURES/THE KOBAL COLLECTION/The Picture DeskWHAT IS A PROBLEM?
The Creativity of Human Language
The Universality of Language
Studying LanguagePERCEIVING WORDS, PHONEMES, AND LETTERS
Components of Words
Perceiving Spoken Phonemes and Words, and Written Letters
METHOD: Word Superiority EffectUNDERSTANDING SENTENCES
The Word Frequency Effect
DEMONSTRATION: Lexical Decision Task
Lexical AmbiguityMETHOD: Lexical Priming
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UNDERSTANDING SENTENCES
Parsing and a Trip Down the Garden Path
The Syntax-First Approach to Parsing
DEMONSTRATION: Late Closure
The Interactionist Approach to Parsing
UNDERSTANDING TEXT AND STORIES
Making Inferences
DEMONSTRATION: Making Up a Story
Situation Models
PRODUCING LANGUAGE: CONVERSATIONS
Semantic Coordination
Syntactic Coordination
METHOD: Syntactic Priming
AND COGNITION SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: CULTURE, LANGUAGE,
TEST YOURSELF 11.2
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THINK ABOUT IT
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KEY TERMS
MEDIA RESOURCES
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