LING 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sound, Affix, Phoneme
25 Jan 2017
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They can move around in a sentence. We know they exist because we see them in speech errors. Speech is continuous, there are no pauses between words in regular speech. E(cid:454): liste(cid:374) to a foreig(cid:374) la(cid:374)guage, (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t tell (cid:449)he(cid:374) a (cid:449)ord (cid:271)egi(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d e(cid:374)ds. When we perceive speech, we are mapping information onto that sound wave. 6-8 months english speaking babies can hear aspiration, lose it at 9 months. No longer carries any cognitive information to differentiate between words. Phonology gives phonetic acoustic sounds cognitive validity. Knowledge of language includes knowledge of morphemes, words, phrases, sentences and sounds and how these can be put together. If you think speech is coming, you use your cognitive ability to map words into meaning. Speech is a cognitive construct above and beyond acoustic information. Phonology is the study of the sound patterns in a language or in human language in general.
