PSYCH320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Prosodic Bootstrapping, Phrase, Habituation
28 Nov 2015
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After habituation (black bar), they hear a change of category (test), they suck harder (change in category) Prosody (provide cues to how sounds are syntactically relevant to groups) Infants may be able to use how sounds sound to figure something out about the grammar (use prosody to learn about something else) Using prosody to use something else (in this case, to learn about grammar + syntax) Prosody is correlated (not perfectly) with syntactic structure. Things that needs to be true for prosody: Must be correlated to how it sounds + how it is structured (some sort of reliable relationship between what the prosody tells you and where the important groups are) Sentence (s) noun phrase (np) verb phrase (vp) also has another noun phrase (np) Come to an important group of words, then come to another group of important words. Infants need to be sensitive to prosodic markings. Must be actually grouping words according to these prosodic cues.
