Psychology Of Language: Harley, Chapter 12

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Linguistic units composed of several sentences

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discourse

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Working out what words and sentences mean

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Semantic processing

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Working out the role of words and sentences

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Referential processing

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Consistency in who or what is being talked about

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Referential coherence

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Consistency in the time in which events occur

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Temporal coherence

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Consistency in the location of where events occur

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Locational coherence

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Consistency in why events happen

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Casual coherence

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The tendency to use the same words and sentence structures in the material recalled

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Syntactic priming

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Material having personal significance

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High Interactional Content (HIC)

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Material having little personal significance

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Low Interactional Content (LIC)

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The derivation of additional knowledge from facts already known; this might involve going beyond the text to maintain coherence or to elaborate on what was actually presented

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inference

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Following the meanings of words. Ex: Vlad is a bachelor, so Vlad is a male.

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Logical inference

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Help relate to previously given information

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Bridging inferences (Backward inferences)

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All inferences that are not logical

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Pragmatic inferences

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Extending the text with other world knowledge

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Elaborative inferences

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We automatically make bridging inferences, but keep elaborative inferences to a minimum

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Minimalist hypothesis

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An object that is linked to previous material by a bridging inference to maintain coherence

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Open discourse role

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Two or more noun phrases with the same reference. Often pronouns

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Co-reference

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the linguistic expression that must be taken into account in order to determine the referent of an anaphor (often the thing for which a pronoun is being substituted)

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Antecedent

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A linguistic expression for which the referent can only be determined by taking another linguistic expression into account - namely the anaphor's antecedent (the pronoun)

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Anaphor

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The amount of information an anaphor contains. Should either aid the identification of the antecedent, or add new information about it, or both.

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Informational load

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Initial search for referents is restricted to entities in common ground

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Restricted search hypothesis

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Initial search for referents is not restricted

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Unrestricted search hypothesis

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The smallest unit of meaning that can be put in predicate-argument form

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Proposition

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Whether a proposition is true or false

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Truth value

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the more facts that are associated with a concept, the slower the retrieval of any one of those facts

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Fan effect

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Ideas can be decomposed into small, atomic units. Text is represented by decomposing the incoming material into these atomic units, and by building a network that relates to them

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Conceptual dependance theory

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A means for organizing knowledge

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Schema

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represent our knowledge of routine actions and familiar repeated sequences. Ex. restaurant script

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Script

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Preview, questions, read, reflect, recite, review

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PQ4R method