PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pronunciation, Minimal Pair, Xylophone

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

Document Summary

Phones develop directly into phonemes as infants gain more experience; categories increase strength. Only as phonological neighbors are added to the lexicon ( ball and doll probably not the same word difference is b and d, more attention to the one sound difference) only get phonology if you add phonological lexicons. Related to neighborhood density. (amount of words that sound alike, start with one word - cat - will have a dense neighbourhood - hat, mat, bat, at etc) some have no neighbours - xylophone. Acquired distinctiveness. (f you have two similar things but they are different, and pair the two things with two very distinct things, you learn the contrast much quicker) Via some universal acquisition of language sounds. (all languages roll out in the similar manner) is not true. Word form changes, take a word form (test without showing object) Minimal pair tasks, ask to learn 2 words that differ by 1 sound.