PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Auditory Cortex
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Single evolutionary criteria that allowed humans to be as sophisticated as we are today. We can pass on things that it took us a lifetime to learn. Language, our spoken, written or gestured work is the way we communicate meaning to ourselves and others. 110-150 words (or meaning units) per minute in a constant stream of speech. To comprehend a listen must : identify words (word boundaries) Word boundaries is perceptual: access contextually appropriate meaning of words. Words can have multiple meanings (i. e. bear vs bare: understand how the order of words influences their meaning. I. e. the boy kissed the girl vs the girl kissed the boy: understand the intention of the speaker. Phone: basic speech sound: any sound that is used in any of the languages of the world (about 870 total) Phoneme: meaningful speech sound: changes the world, example: h (aspiration) is a phoneme in english.
