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1.Enter the letter for the correct definition next to the terms below.
(a) the smallest unit of language that has meaning
(b) perceiving a continuous stimulus as discrete categories
(c) a representation of what a text is about
(d) chunks of syntactic representations
(e) the sound representations that make up human languages
(f) building the grammatical structure of a sentence
(g) the characteristic that words have meaning
(h) the collection of word representations in our long-term memory
__ Constituent
__ Categorical perception
__ Mental lexicon
__ Morpheme
__ Phoneme
__ Semanticity
__ Situational model
__ Syntactic parsing
2. What does it mean that language is hierarchically structured?
3. What are the phoneme restoration and word superiority effects? What process do they illustrate?
4. What is the syntax-first approach to parsing?
5. What is an inference? How is it used to help with language comprehension?
6. What is the “paradox” in language production?