Linguistic categories and speech perception
Linguistic categories and speech perception
Linguistic categories and speech perception
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Summary: Relationships<br />
between properties of the signal are critical<br />
• Current views are that relationships between<br />
successive acoustic (<strong>and</strong> visual) events define<br />
linguistic <strong>categories</strong> as much or more than static<br />
properties<br />
• i.e. listeners interpret sensory information (e.g.<br />
acoustic <strong>and</strong> visual input) in terms of relationships<br />
between properties that reflect the coordinated,<br />
dynamic behaviour of the vocal tract.<br />
• This conclusion does not necessarily entail that the<br />
basic perceptual units are motoric: they are more<br />
likely to be modality-neutral, or multi-modal.
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