PSYC 354 Study Guide - Final Guide: Categorical Perception, Universal Grammar, Speech Perception
20 Feb 2015
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Psyc 354, 2014-3, study questions for final exam. Word boundary problem is question of how infants learn when one word ends and another begins > how do they learn to distinguish individual words from one another in the continuous flow of adult speech. When we speak it sounds like one long rhythmic structure, with indiscriminate pauses like us an english speaking adult listening to someone speak german or mandarin, it sounds like one long continuous stream of sounds. Motherese helps them overcome this issue, because it is more tailored to the infants lack of understanding, it helps facilitate learning and familiarity. Altered tone, slower speech, simple words, word emphasis, syllable stress, repetition these all. Learn those, and can then pick them out in a stream of speech, helps learn the help the baby distinguish between words word boundaries of other surrounding words. Describe the developments that occur in infants" speech perception between the ages of 8 to 12 months.
