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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Language Comprehension and Production WORDS: MEANING, MEMORY, AND RECOGNITION

A word is a unit which is a constituent at the phrase level and above. It is sometimes identifiable according to such criteria as (1) being the minimal possible unit in a reply (2) having features such as (a) a regular stress pattern, and (b)phonological changes conditioned by or blocked at word boundaries. (3) being the largest unit resistant to insertion of new constituents within its boundaries, or (4) being the smallest constituent that can be moved within a sentence without making the sentence ungrammatical.
Meaning is a notion in semantics classically defined as having two components:   
(1)   Reference, anything in the referential realm denoted by a word or expression, and
(2)   Sense, the system of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships between a lexical unit and other lexical units in a language.
In psychology, memory is the processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Encoding allows information that is from the outside world to reach our senses in the forms of chemical and physical stimuli. In this first stage we must change the information so that we may put the memory into the encoding process. Storage is the second memory stage or process. This entails that we maintain information over periods of time. Finally the third process is retrieval. This is the retrieval of information that we have stored. We must locate it and return it to our consciousness. Some retrieval attempts may be effortless due to the type of information.
From an information processing perspective there are three main stages in the formation and retrieval of memory:
(1)   Encoding or registration (receiving, processing and combining of received information)
(2)   Storage (creation of a permanent record of the encoded information)
(3)   Retrieval, recall or recollection (calling back the stored information in response to some cue for use in a process or activity)
Memory can be short-term or long-term.
Short-term memory (or "primary" or "active memory") is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time. The duration of short-term memory (when rehearsal or active maintenance is prevented) is believed to be in the order of seconds.
Long-term memory (LTM) is memory in which associations among items are stored, as part of the theory of a dual-store memory model. According to the theory, long-term memory differs structurally and functionally from working memory or short-term memory, which ostensibly stores items for only around 20–30 seconds and can be recalled easily
Recall is to remember something by thinking or recalling it in your mind from memory whereas recognition is to remember something in your memory through looking at something and recognising it as something seen before.

In understanding and producing language begins with the recognition of language or words, then understand the meaning and save it in memory. So it can perform retrieval process, that is recall the stored information in response to some cue for use in a process or activity . memory is divided into two, the first short term memory, information that is no longer stored in the memory, the second long term memory, that is data or information stored relatively permanent, because often done or pronounced over and over again.

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