PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Vocal Folds, Phoneme, Verbal Behavior
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Speaking and writing are social behaviors: we learn these skills from others and use them to communicate. Language is also a tool for remembering and thinking. Psycholinguistics: a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behavior. Often interested in how children acquire language. Speech does not come as a series of individual words; we must extract the words from a stream of speech (sounds, stress on syllables, pitch) human vocalizations are clearly distinguished from other sounds around us. Some regions of the brain respond more when people heard human vocalizations than when they heard only natural sounds. When it comes to analyzing the detailed information of speech, the left hemisphere plays a larger role. Phonemes: the smallest unit of sound that conveys meaning in a particular language, such as /p/ Voice-onset time: the delay between the initial sound of a consonant and the onset of vibration of the vocal cords.
