PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mcgurk Effect, Cultural Universal, Speech Perception
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The mcgurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. Knowing language is a key part of being human; it is a human universal, and no other species has as complex a communicative system. Language is essential for a huge range of human achievements. Without it, cultural transmission of information and the acquisition of knowledge would be much more limited. At a basic level, language involves translating thoughts into series of sounds that can be. The listener then converts these series of sounds back into thoughts. Language has a hierarchical organization that allows these translations between thought spoken. and sound. Sentence a coherent sequence of words that expresses meaning. In english has to contain noun phrase and verb phrase. Word the smallest free form in a language. Morpheme the smallest unit of sound that can carry meaning in a language.
