An event approach to the study of speech perception from a direct— realist perspective.
| Number | 543 |
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| Year | 1986 |
| Drawer | 9 |
| Entry Date | 11/18/1999 |
| Authors | Fowler, C. A. |
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| Publication | Journal of Phonetics, 14, 3-28. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0543.pdf |
| Abstract | Proposes an event approach to a theory of speech perception and speech production, focusing on the perception of speech events (i.e., a talker's phonetically structured articulations). In defining a speech event interchangeably from the perspectives of talkers and listeners, the author adopts a "direct realist" perspective: Perception is assumed to recover events in the real world. To do this, perception must be direct and unmediated by cognitive processes of inference or hypothesis testing. Barriers to the theory are outlined and evidence presented to refute them. Support for direct perception of local, short-term events and longer ones is discussed. Attention is also given to the way in which perception of a linguistic message guides a listener's behavior. Differences in the reliability of the information conveyed between direct and indirect perception and the implications for the relation between an utterance and what it signified are examined. |
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