Calling a mirage a mirage: direct perception of speech produced without a tongue.
| Number | 737 |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Drawer | 13 |
| Entry Date | 11/15/1999 |
| Authors | Fowler, C. A. |
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| Publication | Journal of Phonetics, 18, 529-541. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0737.pdf |
| Abstract | Addresses E. C. Morrish's (see PA, Vol 78:29976) contention that the compensatory articulations of a speaker without a tongue disconfirm a direct-realist theory of speech perception. Listeners' successful identifications of the speaker's utterances and their mistaken identifications pattern in ways that suggest to Morrish that listeners perceive acoustic signals, not their articulatory causes. The interpretation is inconsistent with other evidence in speech perception and with interpretations of analogous situations (mirages) in visual perception. Morrish argues that the better performance of listeners identifying the speaker's intended words in connected speech than in isolation reveals the central role of top-down processes in speech perception. Morrish fails to show that the top-down influences are on perception, rather than on judgment. |
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