PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-13: Language Acquisition Device, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Dyslexia
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Psycholinguistics: branch of psychology that studies verbal behavior. Auditory system recognizes patterns underlying speech rather than just the sound themselves. Left hemisphere of brain plays a larger role in analyzing speech. Voice-onsent time: delay b/w initial sound of a consonant (such as puffing sound of the phoneme /p/) and the onset of vibration of the vocal cords. Regions of the left auditory cortex seem to specialize in recognizing the special aspects of speech. We are able to recognize sounds even when said wrong, muffled, b/c of the context through top down processing. 300) semantics: meanings and the study of the meanings represented by words. Brain mechanisms of verbal behaviour to produce meaningful speech, we must convert perceptions, memories and thoughts into speech. Damage to broca"s area often produces agrammatism: the loss of the ability to produce or comprehend speech that employs complex syntactical rules such as function words, word endings, and word order.
