PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Speech Segmentation, Categorical Perception, Arbitrariness

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

Document Summary

Phonology: phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural languages. Errors in automated voice recognition exist because it isn"t as refined as human recognition. Lack of invariance: there is no consistent relation between the physical features of sounds and their perception. "same sound" is produced differently depending on what comes before/after. Ex) "cape cod" -> the 2 "c" sounds are different. Solution: categorical perception: categories possessed by an observer influences the observer"s perception. Phonemes: smallest unit of sound that are recognizable as speech and can change meaning. /k/ in cape cod are allophones: speech segmentation: there are no reliable physical cues to the boundaries between words. Morphology and semantics: morphology is the study of words, their rules, and relationships between them, morphemes: smallest units of meaningful language. Bound morphemes: "ed", "es", "ly: on average, high school grads know about 60-80,000 words, arbitrariness in our semantics. Ex) "duck: this capacity comes from.