PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Language Disorder, Saccade, Sight-Reading
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Chapter 10 language languages: flexible systems that use symbols to express many meanings species communicate; yes. they have a language; no. primates have shown that true verbal ability is a social behaviour. Perception of speech speech does not come to us as a series of individual words we must extract the words from a stream of speech. Ganong; perception of a phoneme is affected by sounds that follow it. Morphemes: smallest units of meaning in language free morpheme: a morpheme that can stand on its own and still have meaning. Ex/ fastest = fast free morpheme: bound morpheme: cannot stand on their own, must be attached to other morphemes to have a meaning. Recognition of words in continuous speech: the importance of learning and context. N100 electrical signal appears short syllabic sounds spliced together no n100 signal short syllabic sounds spliced together broken from the continuous stream and designated as.
