W 5: Mechanism of Speech Perception

After studying the chapter, the students will be able to know that:

  • The study of speech sounds is called phonetics. Articulatory phonetics refers to the study of how speech sounds are produced.
  • Acoustic phonetics refers to the study of the resulting speech sounds.
  • The phenomenon of categorical perception suggests that speech is a special mode of perception.
  • Perception of speech is influenced by the contexts in which it appears.
  • We use top-down processing to identify some sounds in context.
  • Recent models of the perception of language assume that we process information at multiple levels in an interactive way.
  • These models can account for several findings in speech perception and visual word perception.

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