LING444 Quiz: LING444 Quiz 2

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING444
• Professor: Qi Zenghan

Document Summary

Children must identify the sounds, or segments of their language (consonants, vowels, tones) and how they fit together to form a system acoustic stimuli. The infant has to figure out the syllable-level system of their language (phonotactic information): which types of syllables are permitted in your language, and which are not. The child has to figure out the prosodic system: word-level, phrase level, or sentence-level information such as stress and intonation. Segments or syllables first or together order of acquisition. English consonants: produced by constricting the vocal tract, while vowels have a relative unobstructed vocal tract. Minimal pair contrastive: means that p and p are contrastive phonemes in thai and hindi but not english, there is no minimal pair of words in english where these sounds have different meanings. 1971 study experimental paradigm: high-amplitude sucking paradigm (hasp) The sucking rate after time decreases so this shows the infant isn"t interest in the sounds anymore habituation.