Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition

Phonetics, Phonology, and Cognition
Author: Jacques Durand
Publisher: Oxford Studies in Theoretical
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198299837

This volume demonstrates that phonology is a subsystem of the mind/brain and explores the theoretical and practical (including medical) consequences of this insight. Written by American and European specialists at the cutting-edge of research in areas ranging from phonetics to neurology, the book addresses central questions relating to the cognitive status of phonological representation and phonetic implementation and the links between mental and physical representation of sound systems.

Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology

Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology
Author: Barbara O. Baptista
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2009-10-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443815144

Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology: Perception and Production reports the findings of seventeen interphonology studies on perception/production of sounds by different first language speakers. All the papers describe careful empirical research, and as such will be of great interest to anyone working, or intending to work, in the specific field of second language phonological acquisition. However, given that speech production and perception are highly complex skills, the research findings in this volume will also be relevant to those with a broader interest in language learning or cognition in general.

Laboratory Phonology 7

Laboratory Phonology 7
Author: Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 741
Release: 2008-08-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110197103

This collection of recent papers in Laboratory Phonology approaches phonological theory from several different empirical directions. Psycholinguistic research into the perception and production of speech has produced results that challenge current conceptions about phonological structure. Field work studies provide fresh insights into the structure of phonological features, and the phonology-phonetics interface is investigated in phonetic research involving both segments and prosody, while the role of underspecification is put to the test in automatic speech recognition.

Language and Cognition

Language and Cognition
Author: Lawrence J. Raphael
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 148990381X

We are pleased to be able to honor Arthur J. Bronstein with this volume of essays. We are all the more pleased because the volume has consider able intrinsic merit, but neither the reader nor Arthur should have any doubts about our primary purpose in assembling this book. That the col lection is intrinsically valuable is, in itself, a tribute to the man whom it honors: The contributing authors are all colleagues, students, and friends of Arthur. Readers who are acquainted with Arthur will not be surprised by the broad range of academic expertise which has been brought to bear on the subject of language in this book. They will recognize that Arthur's own range of expertise and interest is only barely matched by the contents of the essays and the backgrounds of their authors. On the other hand, those who know little about Arthur may have thought of him primarily in narrow association with phonetics and lin guistics, most likely as the author of The Pronunciation of American English, surely the most influential of American phonetics texts during the last quarter of a century. Although such an association is in many respects appropriate, it is altogether too limited, but this will not deter us from using it as the basis for a relevant and, we hope, revealing metaphor about Arthur J.

Approaches to Phonological Complexity

Approaches to Phonological Complexity
Author: François Pellegrino
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110223945

Draws on an interdisciplinary sketch of the phonetics-phonology interface in the light of complexity.

The Language Organ

The Language Organ
Author: Stephen R. Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2002-09-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521007832

This book discusses the biological basis for a person's use of language.

Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition

Linguistic variation, identity construction and cognition
Author: Katie K. Drager
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-10-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3946234240

Speakers use a variety of different linguistic resources in the construction of their identities, and they are able to do so because their mental representations of linguistic and social information are linked. While the exact nature of these representations remains unclear, there is growing evidence that they encode a great deal more phonetic detail than traditionally assumed and that the phonetic detail is linked with word-based information. This book investigates the ways in which a lemma’s phonetic realisation depends on a combination of its grammatical function and the speaker’s social group. This question is investigated within the context of the word like as it is produced and perceived by students at an all girls’ high school in New Zealand. The results are used to inform an exemplar-based model of speech production and perception in which the quality and frequency of linguistic and non-linguistic variants contribute to a speaker’s style.

The Phonological Mind

The Phonological Mind
Author: Iris Berent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 052176940X

A study of how humans weave the sound-patterns of language, informed by insights from linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience and genetics.

Phonological Skills and Learning to Read

Phonological Skills and Learning to Read
Author: Usha Goswami
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1990
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780863771514

This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom. It aims to develop a theory about why early phonological skills are crucial in learning to read, and shows how phonological knowledge about rhymes and other units of sound helps children learn about letter sequences when beginning to be taught to read. The authors begin by contrasting theories which suggest that children's phonological awareness is a result of the experience of learning to read and those that suggest that phonological awareness precedes, and is a causal determinant of, reading. The authors argue for a version of the second kind of theory and show that children are aware of speech units, called onset and rime, before they learn to read and spell. An important part of the argument is that children make analogies and inferences about these letter sequences in order to read and write new words.

The Oxford Handbook of Language Production

The Oxford Handbook of Language Production
Author: Matthew Goldrick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2014-04-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199393516

The Oxford Handbook of Language Production provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of the complex mechanisms involved in language production. It describes what we know of the computational, linguistic, cognitive, and brain bases of human language production - from how we conceive the messages we aim to convey, to how we retrieve the right (and sometimes wrong) words, how we form grammatical sentences, and how we assemble and articulate individual sounds, letters, and gestures. Contributions from leading psycholinguists, linguists, and neuroscientists offer readers a broad perspective on the latest research, highlighting key investigations into core aspects of human language processing. The Handbook is organized into three sections: speaking, written and sign languages, and how language production interfaces with the wider cognitive system, including control processes, memory, non-linguistic gestures, and the perceptual system. These chapters discuss a wide array of levels of representation, from sentences to individual words, speech sounds and articulatory gestures, extending to discourse and the broader social context of speaking. Detailed supporting chapters provide an overview of key issues in linguistic structure at each level of representation. Authoritative yet concisely written, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, audiology, and education, and related fields.