PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Phonotactics, Vocal Folds, Phonological Awareness
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Acoustically different speech sounds (phones) that are not functionally different (i. e. , are the same phoneme) in a particular language. For example, [p] and [ph] are allophones of the phoneme /p/ in english. articulatory complexity. The motoric difficulty of producing some sounds over others. articulatory phonetics. The system of describing speech sounds in terms of how they are produced. babbling drift. The notion that the sounds in infants" babbling are influenced by the ambient language. Their babbling drifts in the direction of the speech the infant hears (r. A reduplicated series of the same consonant vowel combination in clear syllables (such as da-da). A whole-word sound pattern that young children sometimes use as a basis for pronouncing new words. connectionist model. A type of model of how a phenomenon, such as some aspect of language acquisition, could be accomplished by a device that consists of a network of interconnected nodes.
