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By upending traditional perspectives, this book gives a biologically-grounded understanding of how spoken language conveys meaning.
Author : Victor J. Boucher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107185033
By upending traditional perspectives, this book gives a biologically-grounded understanding of how spoken language conveys meaning.
Author : Victor J. Boucher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1316946479
There has been a longstanding bias in the study of spoken language towards using writing to analyse speech. This approach is problematic in that it assumes language to be derived from an autonomous mental capacity to assemble words into sentences, while failing to acknowledge culture-specific ideas linked to writing. Words and sentences are writing constructs that hardly capture the sound-making actions involved in spoken language. This book brings to light research that has long revealed structures present in all languages but which do not match the writing-induced concepts of traditional linguistic analysis. It demonstrates that language processes are not physiologically autonomous, and that speech structures are structures of spoken language. It then illustrates how speech acts can be studied using instrumental records, and how multisensory experiences in semantic memory couple to these acts, offering a biologically-grounded understanding of how spoken language conveys meaning and why it develops only in humans.
Author : Jonathan Harrington
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1134953615
Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes and Techniques brings together researchers from many different disciplines - computer science, dentistry, engineering, linguistics, phonetics, physiology, psychology - all with a special interest in how speech is produced. From the initial neural program to the end acoustic signal, it provides an overview of several dominant models in the speech production literature, as well as up-to-date accounts of persistent theoretical issues in the area. A particular focus is on the evaluation of information gleaned from instrumental investigations of the speech production process, including MRI, PET, ultra-sound, video-imaging, EMA, EPG, X-ray, computer simulation - and many others. The research presented in this volume considers questions such as: the feed-back vs. feed-forward control of speech; the acoustic/auditory vs. articulatory/somato-sensory domains of speech planning; the innateness of human speech; the possible architecture of a speech production model; and the realization of prosodic structure in speech. Leaders in speech research from around the world have contributed their most recent work to this volume.
Author : David Odden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521826691
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Author : Rachael-Anne Knight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108596568
Phonetics - the study and classification of speech sounds - is a major sub-discipline of linguistics. Bringing together a team of internationally renowned phoneticians, this handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the most recent, cutting-edge work in the field, and focuses on the most widely-debated contemporary issues. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas: segmental production, prosodic production, measuring speech, audition and perception, and applications of phonetics. Each chapter presents an historical overview of the area, along with critical issues, current research and advice on the best practice for teaching phonetics to undergraduates. It brings together global perspectives, and includes examples from a wide range of languages, allowing readers to extend their knowledge beyond English. By providing both state-of-the-art research information, and an appreciation of how it can be shared with students, this handbook is essential both for academic phoneticians, and anyone with an interest in this exciting, rapidly developing field.
Author : John E. Bernthal
Publisher : Pearson Educacion
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Articulation disorders
ISBN : 9780133061468
A classic in the field, Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Speech Sound Disorders in Children, 7e, presents the most up-to-date perspectives on the nature, assessment, and treatment of speech sound disorders. A must-have reference, this classic book delivers exceptional coverage of clinical literature and focuses on speech disorders of unknown causes. Offering a range of perspectives, it covers the normal aspects of speech sound articulation, normal speech sound acquisition, the classification of and factors related to the presence of phonological disorders, the assessment and remediation of speech sound disorders, and phonology as it relates to language and dialectal variations. This edition features twelve manageable chapters, including a new chapter on the classification of speech sound disorders, an expanded discussion of childhood apraxia of speech, additional coverage of evidence-based practices, and a look at both motor-based and linguistically-based treatment approaches.
Author : Keith Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
In this text, the editors aim to convert the mapping of speech patterns into mental representations. They cover theories of perception and cognition, issues in clinical speech pathology, and the practical concerns of speech technology.
Author : Rka Benczes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108491871
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Phonological motivation in language evolution and development; 3. Phonetic symbolism; 4. Onomatopoeia; 5. Rhyme and alliteration in blends and compounds; 6. Words, words, words: rhyme and repetition in multi-word expressions; 7. Conclusions: the piggy in the middle.
Author : Peter Mariƫn
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0128017856
The Linguistic Cerebellum provides a comprehensive analysis of this unique part of the brain that has the most number of neurons, each operating in distinct networks to perform diverse functions. This book outlines how those distinct networks operate in relation to non-motor language skills. Coverage includes cerebellar anatomy and function in relation to speech perception, speech planning, verbal fluency, grammar processing, and reading and writing, along with a discussion of language disorders. - Discusses the neurobiology of cerebellar language functions, encompassing both normal language function and language disorders - Includes speech perception, processing, and planning - Contains cerebellar function in reading and writing - Explores how language networks give insight to function elsewhere in the brain
Author : Ratree Wayland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108882366
Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.