PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 48: Categorical Perception, A Bathing Ape, Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
26 Feb 2020
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We are pretty good at distinguishing sounds. Ex: anything on one side of the boundary, you are as a /b/ and anything on the other side you hears as a /p/ Never perceive sounds that sound in between". Graph aove: audio recording of sound ba" and pa, changed the recordings so ba" and pa" started to sound very similar, we woul assume a gradual change in our perception as the phonemes change, but we don"t. Present in infants too: although infants can even discriminate differences that are relevant to other languages too. Not uniquely human: chinchillas do it too. Has to do with properties of the human auditory system languages have evolved to take advantage of differences that people are good at detecting generativity: We can create new words by combining phonemes. How do we interpret language: one word at a time or do we wait until the end of the sentence to interpret the meaning, can happen either way.
