A morpheme is the smallest unit of a word that can carry meaning. You might think that’s the same as a word, but there are even smaller bits that you know the meaning of, maybe without realizing it. Think about the following words: unlock, untie, unwrap, unwind, unwind, unstick. What does that little piece un- […]
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[f] for Phoneme: the units of speech sounds
Phonemes are the building blocks of words. A phoneme is a speech sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language. They are like little categories in your brain! You sort acoustic sounds into phonemes when you say something or hear someone speak. Not all instances of a phoneme sound exactly the […]
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Who We Are
HELLO WORLD! Welcome to our blog about babies and language (or more fancily stated: infant psycholinguistics)! We are a group of researchers (the Bergelson lab, part of Duke Child Studies) who study how babies learn language from the world around them. We use lots of different methods to do this: we measure what infants see […]