Category: Science
Created by: tim.zhaotianqi
Number of Blossarys: 40
A situation in which a word can have more than one meaning • Example: “rock” Context usually enables quick resolution of lexical ambiguity • “I could not move the heavy rock that blocked the ...
Language determines or influences the way that a person thinks or perceives the world. Also called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Evidence comes from studies of color categorization in different ...
Language and thought are represented and processed by separate modules in the mind • Module is an informationally encapsulated, domain-specific system. • Language and thought modules operate ...
Smallest meaningful unit of language • Meaning can be grammatical (e.g., suffix) • About 50,000 to 80,000 in English • Morpheme does not correspond to number of phonemes or syllables in a ...
A new approach to studying decision making which combines research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and economics.
A form of pragmatic reasoning that states that if a person satisfies condition A, then they have permission to carry out action B.
Shortest segment of speech that, if changed, can change the meaning of a word • About 47 different phonemes in English • Languages have different phonemes • Example: “bit” has three phonemes, ...