PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Louse, Verbal Behavior
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It has been long known that most species can communicate with one another but this doesn"t mean that they have language. Example: when female moth is ready to mate she will release a chemical that will bring the male moth from miles away. Psycholinguistics: a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour, are more concerned with human cognition than with the particular rules that describe language. Interested in how children acquire language; how verbal behaviour develops and how children learn to speak from their interactions with adults. Phonemes: elements of speech the smallest unit of sound that allows us to distinguish the meaning of the spoken word. Example: the word pin consists of three phonemes: /p/+/i/+/n/ Voice-onset time: the delay between the initial sound of a constant (such as the puffing sound of the phoneme /p/) and the onset of vibration of the vocal cords. Voicing is the vibration of you vocal cords.
