PSYC 2400H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Noam Chomsky, Phonics, B. F. Skinner
2 Feb 2018
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Language: bf ki(cid:374)(cid:374)er: (cid:862)verbal la(cid:374)guage(cid:863) (book) learned through reinforcement, noa(cid:373) cho(cid:373)sky book (cid:862)syntactic structures(cid:863) la(cid:374)guage coded i(cid:374) ge(cid:374)es. Psycholinguistics: psychological study of language: comprehension, production, representation, acquisition. Components: phoneme: meaningful sound components (not letters 47 in eng, morpheme: meaningful units (not just words, ing, ed, ess, s) Speech segmentation: spoken words have no spaces between them, learned skill. Jai(cid:373)e"s (cid:373)other said (cid:862)be a big girl a(cid:374)d eat your vegetables(cid:863) the thi(cid:374)g big earl loved the most in the world was his car. Understanding words: phonemic restoration, words isolated from conversational speech, speech segmentation, word superiority. High frequency words: some of the high frequency words can be sounded out using basic phonic rules, e. g. it is an easy word to read using phonics. However, many of the high frequency words are not phonically regular and are therefore hard to read in the early stages.
