PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Motor Skill, Matthew Effect, Grapheme

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

Document Summary

Phonetics: perception of speech sounds solidi ed by 1. Phonology: relationship between speech sounds to indicate meaning is solidi ed by 1. 5. Some contrasts between speech sounds continue to be re ned for clearer categorization. Onset is dependent on reading experience and natural language development. Increased ease with complex clusters (hard things to pronounce, especially if they contain many consonants or have multiple syllables). Accents: mutable and can change over the course of development. Peers contribute to this in early school years, and we adopt the speech sounds of our peers. Dialects: semantically related rather than just changing the sounds of speech. Accent and dialects can function as register, the social pressure to t in, and to assert one"s identity. Lexicon in later development: there is a four-fold increase in the amount of words an individual knows between grades one and. Can be measured by multiple choice (gre, lsat, mcat)