PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phoneme, Prime Number, Feature Model

• School: IUPUI
• Department: PSY-B - Psychology
• Course: PSY B110
• Professor: Michelle Carroll

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Cognition: refers to the mental processes that we use to acquire, retain, and use knowledge. Thinking: the mental manipulation of info, in order to organize info, solve probs, reason about things, make decisions, and communicate. Intelligence: the a(cid:271)ility to apply k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge i(cid:374) order to deal effe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)ely (cid:449)ith o(cid:374)e"s e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Language: a system for combining a finite number of arbitrary symbols into an infinite number of meaningful statements. Phoneme: the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another. Semantics: aspect of language that has to do with meaning. Cooing: infants at four five months old begin to produce their first language-like sounds. Lo(cid:374)g (cid:448)o(cid:449)els (cid:862)ooooh(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)ahhh(cid:863: babbling: six-eleven months, infants begin combining consonant and vowel sounds (cid:862)dadada(cid:863) or (cid:862)(cid:271)a(cid:271)a(cid:271)a(cid:863) Infant-directed speech: when adults naturally speak to infants in a very stereotypic tone of voice. Telegraphic speech: short phrases (cid:862)i (cid:449)a(cid:374)t (cid:373)ore (cid:373)ilk(cid:863) or (cid:862)look at the (cid:373)ilk(cid:863)