PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Speech Segmentation, Vocal Folds, Phoneme

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Morphemes are conveyed by sounds called phonemes (smallest unit of sound that can serve to distinguish words in language: some phonemes are easily represented by letters of the alphabet, others are not. In each level, language can be organized in another way people can combine and recombine units to produce novel utterances (assembling phonemes into brand-new morphemes or assembling words into brand new phrases: not all combinations are possible. Noise is produced when the airflow from the lungs is interrupted or altered. In the larynx there are two flaps of muscular tissue called the vocal folds: can be rapidly opened and closer, producing a buzzing vibration known as voicing (produce a [z] sound) You can also produce sound by narrowing the air passageway within the mouth itself (when you hiss) Gap you create makes different sounds when its moved elsewhere.