LING 3P61 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4, 5: Phonological Awareness, Vocal Tract, Syntactic Bootstrapping
15 Jan 2016
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Ling 3p61 chapter 4: phonological development: learning the sounds of. Distinctive feature: a phonetic feature like voicing that creates a phonemic distinction between 2 sounds. Phonemes: smallest unit that makes a difference in meaning. Articulatory phonetics: system of describing speech sounds in terms of how they are produced. Phonetic features: characteristic of the way speech sounds are produced that is used to describe differences and similarities among sounds (ex. and p differ in voicing) Place of articulation: where the vocal tract is closed. Manner or articulation: how the vocal tract is closed. Marginal babbling: sounds series produced just before canonical babbling: reduplicated/canonical babbling: consists of repeating the same syllable over and over, nonreduplicated/variegated babbling: babbling that contains sequences of different syllables rather than repetition of same syllable. Babbling drift: babbling is influenced by ambient language; their babbling drifts in the direction the baby hears.
