A direct realist view of cross-language speech production.
| Number | 996 |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Drawer | 18 |
| Entry Date | 07/01/1998 |
| Authors | Best, Catherine T. |
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| Publication | Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience, edited by W. Strange, Baltimore, MD: York Press. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0996.pdf |
| Abstract | This chapter addresses several related issues that are central to understanding language-specific influences on segmental speech perception, and especially experience-related developmental change, from an ecological theoretical perspective (differing theoretical perspectives are presented in other chapters in this volume: Flege; Kuhl and Iverson; Jusczyk, Hohne, and Madel; Werker). Specifically, it provides a coherent account of the nature of information perceived in speech, of how that information relate to crucial properties of speech production and reveals the phonetic and phonological organization of the listener’s language, of the way these factors influence adults’ perception of unfamiliar non-native speech sounds and contrasts, and of the developmental course of perception of native and non-native speech. The discussion here examines the following questions. Are the informational primitives for speech perception acoustic/auditory cues, abstract static phonetic features, or dynamic articulatory-gestural patterns? How do the perceptual primitives participate in the phonological organization of a language? How is it, exactly, that experience with the native language influences adults’ perception of non-native speech, particularly the perception of similarities and dissimilarities between native and non-native segments? Finally, what information do infants perceive in native and non-native speech, and how does developmental change reflect learning about the native phonological system? |
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