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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| labial | concept | uttered with the participation of one or both lips. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| labiodental | concept | consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth. (from Wikipedia) |
| language | concept | The mental ability to encode and decode information, and translate this information into verbal, acoustic and visual representations, according to a set of rules that are common across a population. |
| language acquisition | concept | the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate. (From Wikipedia) |
| language comprehension | concept | The ability to understand communication from others, such as speech, written text, gestures, or sign language. (from http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?language+comprehension) |
| language learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| language processing | concept | the way human beings process speech or writing and understand it as language. (From Wikipedia) |
| language production | concept | is translating a concept or set of ideas into spoken, signed or written form |
| laryngeal | concept | of, relating to, or used on the larynx; produced by or with constriction of the larynx. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| late closure | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| lateral inhibition | concept | the capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors. (From Wikipedia) |
| learning | concept | The process of acquiring new skills/knowledge/information |
| lemma | concept | a proposition proved, or sometimes assumed, to be true and used in proving a theorem; the subject of a composition, gloss, or note, esp. when used as a heading; a term glossed in a list. (from yourdictionary... |
| letter fluency test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| letter n-back task | task | A task in which participants view a continuous stream of letter stimuli. The object of the task is to identify letter repetitions that occur n-trials preceding to the current stimulus. |
| Letter naming task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| letter number sequencing | task | a task that requires the reordering of an initially unordered set of letters and numbers |
| lexical access | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| lexical ambiguity | concept | the presence of two or more possible meanings within a single word. (from grammar.about.com) |
| Lexical decision task | task | a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments; the basic procedure involves measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords. Subjects are presented, either visually or auditorily, with a mixture of words and pseudowords (nonsense strings that respect the phonotactic rules of a language, like trud in English)... |
| lexical encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| lexical processing | concept | A general term referring to the processing of single words, typically in the context of visual or auditory word recognition. |
| lexical retrieval | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| lexicon | concept | The vocabulary of a language, including its words and expressions. |
| linguistic competence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| listening | concept | to pay attention to sound; to hear something with thoughtful attention, give consideration; to be alert to catch an expected sound. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| listening span task | task | A task in which subjects must listen to a set of sentences and remember the last word in the sentence. The number of words that can be recalled is the "listening span." |
| logic | concept | a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration; the science of the formal principles of reasoning. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| logical reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| logical thinking | concept | the process in which one uses reasoning consistently to come to a conclusion. (from http://www.learninginfo.org/logical-thinking.htm) |
| long term memory | concept | a system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use, items of information stored as long-term memory may be available for a lifetime. (from http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art... |
| loss aversion | concept | The tendency of individuals to be more sensitive to the possibility of losing objects or money than they are to the possibility of gaining the same objects or amounts of money. |
| lying | concept | marked by or containing falsehoods. (from merriam-webster.com) a horizontal position. (from Wikipedia) |