PSYCH 56L Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Irene Pepperberg, Vocal Tract, Speech Perception
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Lecture 6 biological bases of language acquisition iii. Trained by dr. irene pepperberg and can speak/understand. Speech sounded very accurate: produced very differently from humans. Knew names of 150 objects and fixed expressions. The pa(cid:396)(cid:396)ot la(cid:374)guage a(cid:272)(cid:395)uisitio(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess see(cid:373)s (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t f(cid:396)o(cid:373) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)hild"s. The output of that p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess (cid:272)e(cid:396)tai(cid:374)l(cid:455) see(cid:373) (cid:373)o(cid:396)e li(cid:373)ited tha(cid:374) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s. An ordinary non college student would probably know 35,000. Gua the chimp was raised in human home like a human baby with another human baby. Moto(cid:396) skills (cid:449)e(cid:396)e (cid:271)ette(cid:396) tha(cid:374) kid"s (cid:271)ut (cid:374)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) lea(cid:396)(cid:374)ed ho(cid:449) to speak. Viki the (cid:272)hip (cid:449)as a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)el(cid:455) taught to p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)e (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds a(cid:374)d (cid:449)as a(cid:271)le to sa(cid:455) (cid:862)(cid:373)a(cid:373)a(cid:863) (cid:862)papa(cid:863) (cid:862)(cid:272)up(cid:863) Researchers thought chimpanzees have a vocal tract that made speech production impossible: however they were actually more flexible than though, not really a tract issue. The basic primate vocal production can make five distinguishable vowels. The lana project (or language analog) est in 1971.
