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A-Z 775motor aphasiaaphasia, Broca’s aphasiamotor theory of speech perceptionHypothesis developed by A.M.Liberman about the connection between the divisionaldistinction of linguistic perception of sounds and the phonological structure of language.Liberman assumes that, on the basis of an observable feedback effect through silentrepetition of the heard sound, a hearer’s speech perception is directed by the articulatoryprocesses necessary for production of the corresponding sounds.ReferencesLane, H. 1965. The motor theory of speech perception: a critical review. PsychologR 72. 275–309.Liberman, A.M. 1967. Intonation, perception, and language. Cambridge, MA.Liberman, A.M. et al. 1963. A motor theory of speech perception. Stockholm.psycholinguisticsmove-αA general movement rule in newer versions of transformational grammar whichreplaces construction-specific transformations. In the standard theory ( aspectsmodel) there were specific transformations like passive transformations, questionformingtransformations and raising; there now exists just one rule: move-α. Earlierconstruction-specific properties of the respective movement rules must now be the resultof the interaction between the lexical properties of the category inserted into theconstruction on the one hand, and the general constraints on movement rules on the otherhand. For example, wh-movement, NP-movement, and Chomsky adjunction aredifferent subtypes of move-α, which are differentiated according to the landing sites ofthe movement. In Chomsky’s Government and Binding theory, there is a distinctionbetween a’representational’ and a ‘derivational’ interpretation of move-α. In the former,move-α is understood as a structural relationship between an antecedent and a (coindexed)trace; in the latter, move-α is interpreted in terms of the derivational historybetween deep structure and surface structure.