Modularity and the Motor theory of Speech Perception

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Proceedings of A Conference To Honor Alvin M. Liberman

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This volume compiles proceedings from a conference honouring Alvin M. Liberman's pioneering research in speech perception. It centres on two provocative theories advocated by Liberman and colleagues: that articulatory gestures underpin both speech production and perception, and that these processes arise from a specialised mechanism rather than general cognition. The book examines the broad implications of these ideas, spanning neurophysiology, language acquisition, linguistic processing, visual phonetics, sign language, and reading.
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This book is suited to advanced students and researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurophysiology, and speech sciences, as well as professionals interested in the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language and reading.

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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A compilation of the proceedings of a conference held to honour Alvin M. Liberman for his outstanding contributions to research in speech perception, this volume deals with two closely related and controversial proposals for which Liberman and his colleagues at Haskins Laboratories have argued forcefully over the past 35 years.

The first is that articulatory gestures are the units not only of speech production but also of speech perception; the second is that speech production and perception are not cognitive processes, but rather functions of a special mechanism.

This book explores the implications of these proposals not only for speech production and speech perception, but for the neurophysiology of language, language acquisition, higher-level linguistic processing, the visual perception of phonetic gestures, the production and perception of sign language, the reading process, and learning to read.

The contributors to Modularity and the Motor Theory of Speech Perception include linguists, psycholinguists, speech scientists, neurophysiologists, and ethologists. Liberman himself responds in the final chapter.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780805803310

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 December 1990

Country: United States

Imprint: Psychology Press

Contributors:

Edited by Michael Studdert-Kennedy
Edited by Ignatius G. Mattingly

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 1050g

Pages: 480

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About the Author

Michael Studdert-Kennedy, Ignatius G. Mattingly