PSY 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Syllabary, Speech Perception, Minimal Pair
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Exam 1: minimal pair with says, cell, phrase structure rules rewritten to show recursion, np d+n+pp; pp p+np, speech sounds of /p/, /b/, /k, stop consonants, vowel sounds, position and height of tongue. Lack of invariance problem: categorical perception, not offered to doubt whorf"s hypothesis a. Is not testable, therefore cannot be a scientific hypothesis: researcher tests a theory of language with sentences, psychologist, can defend wrong answer through email. Reading: just like speech perception, reading (perception of written language,) requires both bottom-up and top-down processing to take place. Features to letters to words to phrases to clauses to sentences to discourse. Knowledge, experience, and context: levels of perceptual processing (words) Bottom-up processing would mean it goes features letters words. Top-down processing would mean perceiving the whole precedes perception of the parts: bottom up processing in reading. Array 1: no features in common with z. Array 2: many features in common with z .
