CIS 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Voice-Onset Time, Psycholinguistics, Jean Berko Gleason
20 Dec 2018
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Brain fills in interrupted sounds similar with image- fills in interrupted information. Place of articulation voicing voice onset time. Testing voice onset time (vot) ta vs ba testing in babies if habituated, sucking on pacifier goes down. Newborns can make all phonemic contrasts of worlds languages, meaningful differences related to native language is kept, other differences discarded- a critical period. Mcgurk effect: same sound sounds diff depending on vision of mouth movement. Put the frog on the napkin in the box - ambiguity, depends on context. Less words used as conversation goes on, more efficient. Define the concept of an arbitrary sign in the context of linguistics. Sound symbolism- ex: rose sounds beautiful even though its not an onomatopoeia. No connection between a word"s sound and its meaning. Assembles words into phrases according to the words" part-of speech categories, such as noun and verbs .
