PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Implicit Learning, Japanese Language, Categorical Perception

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Thomas Spalek

Document Summary

Categorical perception effect: r and l distinction in japanese. Japanese adults cannot distinguish r and l speech sounds. As the babies learn japanese, the variation of r and l is lost, because the japanese language does not distinguish them. Grammar: grammar: the complete set of rules that will generate or produce all of the acceptable sentences in a language, and will not generate any unacceptable, ill- formed sentences put together words. Four linguistic intuitions: 4 aspects of language that users of the language can do implicitly, without being able to formally state rules. Linguistic intuitions: knowing what is grammatical, all politicians kiss babies, kiss politicians babies all. Note: knowing what is grammatical does not require meaning: colourless green ideas sleep furiously, grammatical relations (relations between words in a sentence such as subject, verb & object, john is eager to please, john is easy to please.