PSYA02H3 : ch.10
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Psycholinguistics how children acquire language by interacting with adults. Profit from experience of others died long ago. Perception of speech: rhythmic pattern of stress, sounds, voice, continuous stream of sounds with pauses, stress, change in pitch. auditory system recognizes patterns underlying speech, rather than just sounds. distinguish vocalization from non-speech sounds (chuckle, cough etc. ) analyze detailed info of speech through left hemisphere. phonemes: minimum unit of sound element conveying meaning. voice-onset time: delay b/w initial sound of consonant and vibration of vocal cords. distinguish b/w voiced and unvoiced consonants for p/b, k/g, t/d. vocal cords vibrate when air passes through lungs. delay 0. 06 second for vocal cord vibration when say pa . ganong (1980): perception of phoneme determined by sounds followed it. morphemes: smallest unit of meaning in language combo of phonemes www. notesolution. com bound morphemes can"t stand own, must attach to other morpheme for meaning (- est)