Speech

Alvin Liberman and his colleagues at the Haskins Laboratory in New Haven
created the techniques, the methods, and the insights appropriate to the study of
speech perception. This volume brings together a carefully edited collecton of
twenty-three of their most important research articles, along with an introduction
by Liberman that charts the progress of the research -- the errors as well as the
hits -- over the past five decades.Liberman has been the main analytic and
synthesizing scientist in the development of a field that must hold a fascination
for those interested, most generally, in the place of speech in the biological
scheme of things. The more specific implications cover a broad range: at the one
extreme, the problems associated with the machine production and recognition of
speech; at the other, our understanding of how children learn to read its alphabetic
transcriptions, and why some can't.Major Sections: On the Spectrogram as a Visible
Display of Speech. Finding the Cues. Categorical Perception. An Early Attempt to Put
It All Together. A Mid-Course Correction. The Revised Motor Theory. Some Properties
of the Phonetic Module. More about the Function and Properties of the Phonetic
Module. Auditory vs. Phonetic Modes. Reading/Writing Are Hard Just Because
Speaking/Listening Are Easy.Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
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