PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Voice-Onset Time, Spectrogram, My Pet Monster
27 May 2014
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What kids know about their language by about age 3 knows quite a lot. What do they need to learn: determining word boundaries, word meanings (semantics, the way (tone) we say things pragmatics (what autistics have a hard time with, changes in sound make different words with different meanings, grammar, syntax. In spanish, the meaning of almohada is pillow: meanings. How do you know what the words are: segmentation. : where does one word end and the next begin: few silences between words, and some within words, so speech stream is often ambiguous, phonology. : what changes in sound count as new words: in english, changing i to r makes a different word (lake vs. rake). Not in japanese: in xhosa, adding a click can make a different word. Not in english: in all languages: change from child voice to adult voice don"t make a difference. : how words combine to express relations between meanings: in english, order matters.
