Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Vocal Folds, Phoneme, Kanzi
13 Feb 2018
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What is language bees communicate with each other -- do they use language? computers communicate with people and with each other -- do they use language? language is a form of cognition and a form of communication. Formant transitions to pay attention to the meaning, you need to erase the "noise" that comes with listening to sounds the formants are sometimes going up (rising formant) and sometimes going down (dropping formant) Speech perception categorical speech perception phonemes differ by voice onset time. ba has short vot the amount of time from when you start the sound to when the sound actually comes out is short. Mcgurk and mcdonald (1976) found that when participants hear ba but saw. Sound into language syntax (rules and structure of language) understanding language text/sentence comprehension. Surface and deep strucutre surface structure: words, word order, written letters, etc. deep structure: underlying meaning different surface structures give rise to the same deep structure:
