PSY 0422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, Parallel Communication, Coarticulation

• School: Pitt
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 0422
• Professor: Ruizhe Liu, Timothy Nokes Malach

Document Summary

Route to understanding language is similar to what you learned earlier about visual input. Light patterns visual features objects scenes. Sound patterns phonemes (basic representation of language) words sentences. The route to understanding language is similar to visual processing. Phonology (sounds put together to form words) Rules for order of words and phrases (ex: s-b-o) Pragmatics (paragraph + longer) (related to schema; impact language) Individual speech sounds are called phonemes (smallest unit of cognitive language) Phonemes can be combined to form words. Bat and cat differ by one phoneme. How to decide to pronounce plural nonwords? ex: loap; fambish; seeb. Generate the same sound for these nonwords that nobody has seen before. We use our past experience with words to separate the words (this is hypothesized to be regulated by implicit rules) Evidence for very early ability to do this. Coarticulation: parallel transmission of information (multiple sounds, continuous stream)