PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Speech Perception, Motor Planning, Anomic Aphasia

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Erica Refling

Document Summary

What makes something language: it"s symbolic, it can be used to communicate novel ideas. A phoneme is defined as the shortest segment of speech that, if changed, changes the meaning of the word. : sip vs. zip, bit vs. pit, chop vs. shop, rice vs. lice, bath, bait, bought, boat, bit, bite, bet, beat but, boot, . Learn to perceive phonemes based on the language/languages we are exposed to during development house that speak. French and english then you learn the sounds that are in. Makes it difficult for an adult to learn the new language. Rice and lice are two similar words, but we can distinguish between them: morphology. Morpheme smallest unit of meaning in language. Free morpheme any thing that can stand alone ex. Bound morpheme what we attach to a free morpheme ex. Help, helping, helps, helped, helpful, helper, helpless. Establish, establishment, establishmentarian, disestablishmentarian, antidisestablishmentarian, antidisestablishmentarianism: syntax.