LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Habituation
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Word order: the basic units of word order are subject (s), object (o) and verb (v). 95% of the world"s languages are sov, svo and vso. Languages with vo order: always have prepositions, not postpositions. English: from the beach, not the beach from: pps follow the verb. Talk to the girl: noun + possessor. Languages with ov order: always have postpositions. Guugu yimidhirr (australia): beach from: pps always preceed v. Japanese: taro sunday on arrived": possessor + noun. Discriminate human voices (linguistic input) from other noises: abstract away from differences in pitch, speech, etc. Learn to produce allophones (control air flow, timing of vocal chords, timing and control of articulators, etc. ) (phonetics) Segment continuous speech signal into discrete words that fit syntactic patterns. Combine sounds into meaningful words (morphology) and words into phrases (syntax) Sensitive to contrasts in all lang. sounds (b vs p vs ph) Know word order of target language (english: svo)
