PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lychee, Mutual Exclusivity, Speech Segmentation

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

Document Summary

Spoken word is not like what you read on a page kids have to get around that. A semi-reliable pause in speech: phrases (you do pause after phrases) Certain combinations will never be at certain parts of a word. Str will never be at the end of a word, and usually is at the beginning. First syllable of a word tends to be stressed (if you hear a stressed beat, it is likely the start of a word) Study: when doing a segmentation task, if a phrase like the guitar is played is used (stress on the second syllable), kids thought that tar-is is a word, since tar was stressed. What is gorp ? frog green jump amphibian webbed foot. Fast mapping o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o.