PSY 260 Chapter 10: Language

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 260
• Professor: Nancy Franklin

Document Summary

Sentences - coherent sequences of words that express the intended meaning of a speaker. Morphemes - the smallest language units that carry meaning. O(cid:373)e (cid:373)o(cid:396)phe(cid:373)es like (cid:862)u(cid:373)pi(cid:396)e(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)talk(cid:863) (cid:272)a(cid:374) sta(cid:374)d alo(cid:374)e; othe(cid:396)s get (cid:271)ou(cid:374)d to f(cid:396)ee (cid:373)o(cid:396)phe(cid:373)es, su(cid:272)h as (cid:862)ed(cid:863) o(cid:396) (cid:862)s(cid:863) Phonemes - the smallest unit of sound that can serve to distinguish words in language. Manner of production - how airflow is restricted when producing sounds. Place of articulation - where the airflow is restricted when producing sounds. Speech segmentation - dividing a stream of speech into appropriate segments of where a phoneme starts and ends. Coarticulation - (cid:396)efe(cid:396)s to the fa(cid:272)t that i(cid:374) p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)i(cid:374)g spee(cid:272)h, you do(cid:374)"t utte(cid:396) o(cid:374)e pho(cid:374)e(cid:373)e at a ti(cid:373)e; i(cid:374)stead, the pho(cid:374)e(cid:373)es o(cid:448)e(cid:396)lap so (cid:449)hile you"(cid:396)e p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)i(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e sound, your mouth is getting ready to say the next sound. This overlap helps to make speech production faster and more fluent.