Title: On the Relation between Speech Perception and Speech Production
Abstract: This chapter offers a critique of the idea that the objects of speech perception are motor, and that perception succeeds because of a resort to motor functions. A phonemic typology was sought in the spectrographic patterns of acoustic energy observed in phonemically contrastive utterances. The motor theory belongs to a class of accounts understood, broadly, as analysis by synthesis, and such accounts are common aspects of toolkits that perform recognition automatically, as well as aspects of human cognitive function applied in narrow and broad domains. The distribution of phonemes and the articulatory acts that allegedly define them pattern differently as a consequence of the panoply of linguistic, paralinguistic, and idiosyncratic influences on phonetic expression. Although talker variability can hinder some aspects of linguistic perception, numerous studies have revealed long-term benefits of talker identification learning and exposure to multiple talkers. Speech and language arguably provided the topic of the original empirical neuroscience.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-03-18
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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