PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Phoneme, Psycholinguistics, Acoustic Phonetics
11 May 2019
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The human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems communication. Use of arbitrary symbols(e. g. tree in english, rbol in spanish. An infinite number of utterances can be produced. The study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. The study of sounds as abstract elements in the speaker"s mind that distinguish meaning. A phoneme is a basic unit of a language"s phonology, which is combined with other phonemes to form meaningful units such as words. The smallest linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning. For instance, /r/ and /l/ are two phonem. Phonemes may be represented by different letters in writing, e. g. the phoneme /k/: cat, kit, school, skill. If you listen carefully, they are pronounced slightly different: Still, they belong to the same phoneme. Es in english, so that royal" and loyal" have different meanings. Whether air is fully stopped ([b], [p], [d], [t])
