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Phonetic Category Learning and Its Influence on Speech Production

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: One of the hallmarks of any flexible system of perception and motor control is the ability to adjust to changes induced by dialect, development, fatigue, disease, or aging. Phonetic categories are an essential component of language that enables listeners and speakers to communicate effectively. Four studies are reviewed that illustrate how adults and infants adjust their phonetic categories rapidly and efficiently to maintain a tight coupling between speech perception and speech production. Although this process of adaptive plasticity takes place at the level of phonetic categories, it is also constrained by the lexicon. Words that share similar sounds or similar vocal-articulatory gestures impede the process of adaptation.

Source: Ecological Psychology

DOI: 10.1080/10407413.2014.874839

Author: Richard N. Aslin

Institution: University of Rochester

Language: English

Topic: Phonetics and Phonology Research

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Eye Institute, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Awards: Time course of spoken word recognition, Time Course of Spoken Word Recognition, Statistical approaches to linguistic pattern learning, Core grant for vision research