PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Mass Noun, Metalinguistic Awareness, Dyslexia
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Diacritical marks: symbols that indicate the correct pronunciation of letters in a particular word. Language: open-ended verbal communication that consists of all possible sentences: unique to humans, present in all cultures, essential for knowledge and culture, bilingual. Having multiple languages can be beneficial later on. Ability to switch between languages might carry over. Speech: those sentences that are actually spoken; only a small subset of language. Finite state grammar: every word in a sentence is produced in a sequence starting with the first word and ending with the last: objections to finite state grammar: Too simple to underlie the complexity of natural languages. Natural languages contain sentences that are embedded within other sentences. Phoneme: smallest unit of a sound: phonology: production of phonemes. Modulation of air by mouth and nose. Whether vocal folds vibrate [z], [d], [b], [v] Whether air is fully stopped [b], [p], [d], [t] Where in the mouth the air is restricted.
