PSYA01H3 Lecture : Chapter 10 textbook notes
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On conclusion that has emerged from primate studies is that true verbal ability is a social behaviour. Psycholinguistics- a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour . More concerned with human cognition. ( interested in how children acquire language: how verbal behaviour develops and how kids learn to speak based on their interactions w adults/same w studying on how adults use language etc. Speech does not come to us as a series of individual words; we must extract the words from a stream of speech. The auditory system during speech recognizes the patterns underlying speech rather than just the sounds themselves. When it comes to analyzing detailed info of speech, the left hemisphere plays a larger role. The analysis of speech begins with its elements, or phonemes: smallest units of sound that allow us to distinguish the meaning of a spoken word.
