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Psycholinguistics a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour. Speech and comprehension: speech does not come to us as a series of individual words; we must extract the words from a stream of speech. Recognition of speech sounds: the auditory system recognizes the patterns underlying speech rather than just the sounds themselves, the analysis of speech usually begins with its elements or phonemes. Phoneme the minimum unit of sound that conveys meaning in a particular language, such as /p/ (e. g. ) the word pin consists of 3 phonemes: /p/ + /i/ + /n/ Voice-onset time the delay between the initial sound of a consonant (such as the puffing sound of the phoneme /p/) and the onset of vibration of the vocal cords: phonemes are combined to form morphemes. Bound morphemes can"t stand on their own and must be attached to other morphemes to provide meaning.
