PSYC 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tacit Knowledge, Phonological Rule, Phoneme
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Lecture 4: what we know about our language: the sounds of language. You know the beginning and end of words and that helps you to figure out the other words around that. Familiar words help babies identify adjacent words. Babies know sound structure (phonotactics) [learned early] Babies are sensitive to the distribution of sounds in the input. Statistical cues: prettybaby, prettyflower: pre is often followed by ty, ty is rarely followed by bay or flow. Transitional probabilities: tp = the likelihood of these two syllables occurring together. Ty & ba = low: the only cues to word boundaries. Tacit knowledge at the level of phonology: knowledge of sound structure [set of rules for categorizing sounds, phonemes = sound categorization. Minimal pair: cat, cot; caught, cot; beer, veer: allophones = different members of a category, vary by environment. An allophonic rule in english context matters. Tells us how to pronounce a word, we aren"t aware.
