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Prescriptive grammar: standard way of speaking.
because I am learning my students the formal langauge not in ordinary use.
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Since language processing is a mind-internal process, it is mostly not physically observable. For example, we can't see how does the mind combine words to produce sentences to overcome this predicament (i.e. hidden language processing), psycholinguists guess the hidden mental process by analyzing the observable behavior.
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Entries are grouped in the mind(e.g. according to their meaning and sound)
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A lexical decision experiment is conducted by asking a native speaker to sit in front of a computer screen where he/she is asked to judge as quickly as possible whether the word that apears on the screen is a real word or not.
What we are looking for in this task is:
Response latency: and that is the time it takes for the a participant to respond “yes or no”.
Response accuracy: and that is whether or not the participant responded accurately.
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Language is species specific :• Animals cannot talk and they cannot be taught a human communication system
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This means that the left hemisphere of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body.