PSYC 340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Psycholinguistics, Pushdown Automaton, Turing Machine
28 Jan 2014
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Sentences: a group of words that expresses a complete thought. They usually contain a subject and a predicate. Acoustics: the study of the physical properties of sounds. A sound spectrogram can depict information of sounds by plotting the frequency against. Formants: a concentration (peaks) of acoustic energy in a sound. Phonetics: the acoustic detail of speech sounds (their physical properties) and how they are articulated. Phonology: the study of sounds and how they relate to languages; phonology describes the sound categories each language uses to divide up the space of possible sounds. Aspirated: a sound that is produced with an audible breath. ( pin ) Unaspirated: a sound that is produced without an audible breath. ( spin ) Allophones: different phones that are understood as the same phoneme in a language. i. e. p sounds are allophones in english. Square brackets are used to designate [phones], whereas slanting lines are used for.
