COMD 4380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: North American English, Epenthesis, African American Vernacular English
Document Summary
Chapter 3: phonological development (bk pgs 52 85) Sound vs. phoneme symbol: a phoneme is a complex of acoustic units: acoustic energy, aspiration/friction, frequency, duration, there is not a one-to-one correspondence between the complex and humans categorical perception of a phoneme. Instead of the phoneme complex constantly varies: humans perceive clusters of the variations as one phoneme or another. Bolded on test, rest is just good to know; covered more in articulation and phonetics. When children come to perceive different phonemes in speech. Hpp study: decasper & spence (1986), during an hpp study with newborns read to daily, they found newborns prefer their mother reading the passage over others. Control children, who were not read to daily, had no preference. Jusczyk & anslin (1995): babies were read a story and then played two different words. One was in the story, and the other was not: children looked longer at the word that was in the story.
