PSYC 340 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cohort Model, Hyponymy And Hypernymy, General Idea
22 May 2012
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People with reading trouble have shorter reading spans. One of the meanings is not dominant. Different interventions for language acquisition, but the ones that focus on phonetic and riming units helped with pronunciation skills. Written same way but mean different things. Can effect speed of what"s being understood. Not specific to any particular segment of speech or sound. Something that happens over a segment of speech. Supersegmental in that its covering different parts. Has to do with what we feel when we are producing sounds. Affects airflow through the nasal cavity as it moves up and down. Experiments where jaw protrudes a certain amount when making sound offset minimally so that you could hear a different sound found that over time the displacement they were trying to do. Over time participants learned to adjust their jaw so that it feels comfortable/normals when speacking. Amusia: a musical disorder, involving a deficit in rhythm, melody, and or emotional processing.
