PSYCH 240 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bounded Rationality, Power Law, Motor Skill
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Phonemes: the smallest unit of speech sound that can be used to distinguish one utterance in a given language from another made up of vowel and consonant sounds. In ections: the common suf xes we add to words to t the grammatical context. Lexicon: entire set of morphemes in a given language or in a given person"s linguistic repertoire. Semantics: the study of meaning in a language. Speech perception: able to provide speech with amazing rapidity; fundamental to language use in our everyday lives. Coarticulation: occurs when phonemes or other units are produced in a way that overlaps them in time. One or more phonemes begin while other phonemes still are being produces. Trace model: speech perception begins with 3 levels of feature detection: the level of acoustic features, the level of phonemes, and the level of words: speech perception is highly interactive. Lower levels affect higher levels and vice versa speech perception as special:
