PSY315H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vocal Tract, Language Acquisition Device, Speech Perception
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Introduction: physical sound waves are converted through transduction into nerve signals that our brain processes, this allows us to understand the ideas and language being spoken to us, process can work in the opposite way also. What children acquire: inventory of speech sounds, phonology, rules for combination of sounds, we learn to make and hear certain sounds, no language uses every single speech sound, languages differ in how to combine certain sounds. Example: english has no words that start with zv but. Example: learning what are questions, statements, demands, etc. depending on the context. How children learn language: induction, learn underlying system through simple exposure, gives us different solutions for a problem, possible solutions that language learners never seem to consider. Example: there are different ways to turn statements into a question and children can learn these different ways without much trouble.
