Speech perception as categorization

Speech perception (SP) most commonly refers to the perceptual mapping from the highly variable acoustic speech signal to a linguistic representation, whether it be phonemes, diphones, syllables, or words. This is an example of categorization , in that potentially discriminable speech sounds are assi...

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Published in:Attention, perception & psychophysics perception & psychophysics, 2010-07, Vol.72 (5), p.1218-1227
Main Authors: Holt, Lori L., Lotto, Andrew J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustics
Adult
Anatomy & physiology
Auditory Perception
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Cochlear Implants
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive Psychology
Comprehension
Cues
Dialects
English
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Language
Language Development
Linguistics
Listening Comprehension
Native Language
Noise
North American English
Oral Language
Phonemes
Phonemics
Phonetics
Production and perception of spoken language
Psycholinguistics
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Science
Semantics
Sound Spectrography
Speech
Speech Perception
Stimuli
Tutorial Reviews
Vowels
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Summary:Speech perception (SP) most commonly refers to the perceptual mapping from the highly variable acoustic speech signal to a linguistic representation, whether it be phonemes, diphones, syllables, or words. This is an example of categorization , in that potentially discriminable speech sounds are assigned to functionally equivalent classes. In this tutorial, we present some of the main challenges to our understanding of the categorization of speech sounds and the conceptualization of SP that has resulted from these challenges. We focus here on issues and experiments that define open research questions relevant to phoneme categorization, arguing that SP is best understood as perceptual categorization, a position that places SP in direct contact with research from other areas of perception and cognition.
ISSN:1943-3921
1943-393X
DOI:10.3758/APP.72.5.1218