PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Vocal Tract, Spoken Language, Written Language
1 Nov 2018
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Simply by exposure (unlike reading or math) Young kids much better than computer, though technology is improving (with, for example, limited understanding by intelligence personal assistants like siri) Rapid development of technology in hominid history is likely largely due to language. Comparing vocal tract structures: language is recent. Shorter jaw, rounded tongue, and lower larynx position in the human compared to the chimpanzee are adaptations for speech, though they have disadvantages as well. Gardi(cid:374)er & gardi(cid:374)er trai(cid:374)ed (cid:272)hi(cid:373)p (cid:894)(cid:862)washoe(cid:863)(cid:895) i(cid:374) a l (cid:894)(cid:374)ot speaki(cid:374)g(cid:895) Learned hundreds of signs, primitive syntax (correct ordering) O(cid:373)e produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374), e. g. (cid:1005)st ti(cid:373)e sa(cid:449) s(cid:449)a(cid:374): (cid:862)water bird(cid:863) At best, chimps no better than 2-year-old human. (cid:862)wh(cid:455) did ke(cid:374) set the sogg(cid:455) (cid:374)et o(cid:374) top of his de(cid:272)k? (cid:863) Soggy vs. wet, deck vs. patio, set vs. put. Why did ken vs. why did ken vs. why did ken. Word boundaries are not obvious in wavelengths. After converting sounds to words: interpreting the meaning.
