AUPSY102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Vocal Folds, Vocal Tract, Function Word

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY102
• Professor: Katharine Bailey

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Language relies on well-defined patterns patterns in how individual words are used, patterns in how words are put together into phrases. Language has a structure figure 10. 1 page 347. Sentence a sequence of words that conforms to the rules of syntax (and so has the right constituents in the right sequence) morpheme the smallest language unit that carries meaning. Psycholinguists distinguish content morphemes (the primary carriers of meaning) from function morphemes (which specify the relations among words). Phonemes the basic categories of sound that are used to convey language. Peg and beg differ in their initial phoneme [p] in one case, [b] in the other. Speech is produced by airflow from the lungs that passes through the larynx and from there through the oral and nasal cavities. Movements of the lips and tongue that change the size and shape of the vocal cavity create different vowels. Movements that temporarily obstruct the airflow through the vocal tract produce consonants.