PS260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Frontal Lobe, Syntactic Ambiguity, List Of Fables Characters
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Hierarchical each level composed of sublevels. Phones speech sounds that are physically specifiable. Pill vs. spill [ph] vs. [p] Phonemes smallest differences in sound that influence meaning. Big vs. dig [b] vs. [d] Voicing whether vocal folds vibrate ([z], [d], [b], [v]) or not ([s], [t], [p], [f]) Voice onset time (vot) amount of time that elapses between the start of a speech sound and voicing. Manner of production whether air is fully stopped ([b], [p], [d], [t]) or merely restricted ([z], [s], [v], [f]) Place of articulation where air in the mouth is restricted. Top teeth against bottom lip ([v], [f]) Tongue behind upper teeth ([d], [t], [z], [s]) People tend to make errors perceiving phonemes according to properties of how they are produced. Phonemes that differ in only one feature tend to sound more similar. Example people will misperceive [p] ad [b] because they differ by only the feature of voicing.
