PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Morpheme, Speech Perception, Phoneme
22 Mar 2017
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Chapter 11 - language: language: a system of communication using sounds or symbols that enables us to press our feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences. English rule (cid:498)motherese(cid:499) (cid:523)child-directed speech: perception precedes production, babies understand what they cannot yet produce. Segment speech into the phonemes (sounds) of their language. Map patterns of sounds (words, morpheme) onto meanings. Group words into messages structured by the grammar of their language (sentences) Figure out what people mean from what they say and do (meanings and intentions) At first, newborns can discriminate all the sounds that are present in all the languages in the world. They develop good perception for sounds in their language as early as 6 months, and as they improve on these, they get worse on sounds not in their language. So knowing the phonetic boundaries of your language actually makes it harder to distinguish similar sounds stages.
