Linguistics 2244A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phoneme, Mark Liberman, Pragmatics
16 Jan 2018
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Understand the systematicity of first language acquisition. Look at some methodology for studying child language. Linguistic phone or segment : a sound that may be found in the world"s languages. Phoneme : a segment that serves to distinguish words in a specific language. Ex: english /p/, /b/, / /, /s/ and /z/, but not [ ] Ex: the big house; i ate cereal for breakfast. Longitudinal study : a study that follows a participant over a period of time. Cross-sectional study : a study that looks at many participants at a particular point in time. Linguistic chunk : two or more words that are not analyzed into their component parts. True: infants 3 days to several months can distinguish linguistic sounds that don"t occur in the languages of the home. True: adults may have difficulty distinguishing sounds that are not phonemic in their first language(s).
