PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Linguistic Prescription, Roast Beef, Linguistic Relativity
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Language: unique to humans, present in all cultures, essential for knowledge and culture. Bilingual: misconceptions, children learn both languages quickly. Having multiple languages can be beneficial later on: ability to switch between languages might carry over. The organization of language: how do thoughts become sounds, how do sounds become thoughts, how does this work, hierarchical, with each level composed of other sublevels. Phoneme: smallest unit of a sound: phonology: production of phonemes. Modulation of air by mouth and nose. Whether vocal folds vibrate [z], [d], [b], [v] Whether air is fully stopped [b], [p], [d], [t] Where in the mouth the air is restricted. Top teeth against bottom lip [v], [f] Tongue behind upper teeth [d], [t], [z], [s] Many words have no clear boundaries yet speech segmentation is effortless. Coarticulation: the blending of phonemes at word boundaries. Only some are acceptable in a language. E. g. , the sequence [tf] is not acceptable in english.
