WEEK 8 Language
03 November 2022 22:32
Key concepts of Speech perception
VIDEO 2
Language organization helps us deal with variability in speech signal & listening conditions
Key concepts language comprehension
Language = innate?
Relationship language vs thought?
Pharsing
Proceeds speech perception in serial, parallel or interactive way?
HIERACHY OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE
GRAMMAR
MODEL OF SPEECH PERCEPTION • Set rules determine language structure
• Sentences can "ungrammatical" yet meaningful!
• Others grammatical yet meaningless
GRADEN PATH SENTENCES
GARDEN-PATH MODEL (frazier & rayner 1982)
Which model is true?? • Only one syntactical structure initially constructed
• Meaning not involved initial structure
• Simplest structure chosen using:
Minimal attachment
Solutions: categorical perception & segmentation
CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION
Late closure
Attach new words to phrase currently being processed
GARDEN-PATH MODEL (SERIAL PROCESSING)
SEGMENTATION
Notes Page 1
03 November 2022 22:32
Key concepts of Speech perception
VIDEO 2
Language organization helps us deal with variability in speech signal & listening conditions
Key concepts language comprehension
Language = innate?
Relationship language vs thought?
Pharsing
Proceeds speech perception in serial, parallel or interactive way?
HIERACHY OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE
GRAMMAR
MODEL OF SPEECH PERCEPTION • Set rules determine language structure
• Sentences can "ungrammatical" yet meaningful!
• Others grammatical yet meaningless
GRADEN PATH SENTENCES
GARDEN-PATH MODEL (frazier & rayner 1982)
Which model is true?? • Only one syntactical structure initially constructed
• Meaning not involved initial structure
• Simplest structure chosen using:
Minimal attachment
Solutions: categorical perception & segmentation
CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION
Late closure
Attach new words to phrase currently being processed
GARDEN-PATH MODEL (SERIAL PROCESSING)
SEGMENTATION
Notes Page 1
