PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Speech Perception, Behavioralism, Mcgurk Effect

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Chapter 11: chapter 12, assignment due apr 7. Essay is due by friday this week - submit on blackboard. Ra positions are still open, due this week. Final is apr 17, 9am-12pm --> check official faculty website. Midterm review session sometime this week --> announcement tomorrow. It is believed that it began 100,000 years ago in southern africa. Since language tended to move as people moved --> we bring our own norms as we move. Newer societies and cultures have more language influences, since they are a big mix. Canada --> english has a lot of variation from different past languages. English has 46-47 distinct sounds, mandarin has 27 --> as you go from younger to older, you see less distinct sound, with southern africa having an avg of 15 sounds. Communicative: message of language must be conveyed from one person to another. Arbitrary: an object could have been called any combination of sounds --> ex.

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