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Psy of Language-CH 4
Perception of Language
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stress | the emphasis given to syllables in a sentence |
| suprasegmentals | prosodic factors such as stress, intonation and rate |
| voicing | concerns whether the vocal cords are together or separated when the lung air travels over them |
| Dual-route model | we have two different ways of converting print to speech |
| speaker normalization | listeners use the pitch of the speech signal as a cue for vocal tract size and make perceptual adjustments on this basis |
| TRACE model | challenges the assumption, found in the modularity view, that phonemic processing is unaffected by higher levels of processing |
| coarticulation | the phenomenon of producing more than one speech sound at a given time |
| The lack of invariances | there is no one-to-one correspondence between acoustic cues and perceptual events |
| Formant transitions | the large rises or drops in formant frequency that occur over short durations of time |
| Fixation | the time that we spend at a given location between eye movements |
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