PSYC20007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Explicit Knowledge, Phoneme, Phonemic Awareness
23 Aug 2018
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Week 11: principles of spoken and visual word recognition. Word recognition: words are windows to meaning, language comprehension, seems to be easy/effortless, no awareness of doing" anything, effortlessness, based on recognition of individual words, words, physical objects, signify meanings of their reference. Spoken word recognition: there are no gaps in speech, continuous and flowing. Infants were shown the word guitar over a speaker: then played guitar repeatedly over 2 speakers: 1) guitar, one 2) tar-is. Infants preferred to listen to tar-is (preferential looking time: once they reached 10 months, they preferred guitar, could differentiate between strong-weak and weak-strong. Infants were then tested for listening preference using head turning measurements: results: Infants preferred the part-words crossing over two words - (e. g. tudaro) to words (e. g. (e. g. tudaro) to words (e. g. pabiku) Infants because had been habituated, preferred novelty of words to familiar words: provided evidence that they had already learnt first words.
