WEEK 7: Language ACQUISITION: Sounds, phonemes and words April 5
Section outline
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How infants learn "to speak"
What are the "meaningful" language sounds and where are the words?
Sounds vs. phonemes; Articulating sounds and rules of coarticulation;
Phonology: The sounds to distinguish meanings
Readings: Sedivy, ch. 4, part II
and if interested... Language and the mind, by Raymond Hickey
Learning vs. growth, in Language in Use, by G. Diessel, pp. 313-19
Digital mind in an analog world, in Language Instinct, by S. Pinker 1994
Semiotic Landscape, by G. Kress and T. Leuwen, in Language in Use
ASSIGNMENT: Web activities 4.6-4.9 https://learninglink.oup.com/access/sedivy-2e-student-resources#tag_chapter-04