CDIS 3223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Red Delicious, Face Perception, Honeycrisp
17 Oct 2016
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Infant speech perception: infants begin to attend to sounds much earlier than they begin to speak. They can detect speech patterns in different languages and learn to break the continuous speech into smaller units. During the first year of life, infants are able to focus on the prosodic and phonetic regularities of speech and this begin to engage in speech perceptual skills. Prosodic information: prosody is defined as the normal fluctuations of intensity, rhythm, and pitch variability during speech production: duration: length of the sounds, stress: prominence or emphasis placed on certain syllables of multisyllabic words. Strong-weak versus weak-strong stress patterns: english has more strong-weak stress patterns compared to weak strong stress patterns. Strong weak stress pattern examples: teacher; china; over. Weak strong stress pattern examples: above; japan. Intonation: emphasis placed on certain syllables at phrase and sentence level. Process where infants begin to focus more on perceptual differences that are of significance to them.
