The Speech Processing Lexicon: Neurocognitive and Behavioural Approaches

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In this book, some of today’s leading neurolinguists and psycholinguists provide insight into the nature of phonological processing using behavioural measures, computational modeling, EEG and fMRI. The essays cover a range of topics including categorization, acoustic variability and invariance, underspecification, talker-specificity and machine learning, focusing on the acoustics, perception, acquisition and neural representation of speech. Table of Contents Introduction Phonetic categories and phonological features: Evidence from the cognitive neuroscience of language On invariance: Acoustic input meets listener expectations The invariance problem in the acquisition of non-native phonetic contrasts: From instances to categories Symmetry or asymmetry: Evidence for underspecification in the mental lexicon Talker-specificity effects in spoken language processing: Now you see them, now you don’t Processing acoustic variability in lexical tone perception Flexible and adaptive processes in speech perception Foreign accent syndrome: Phonology or phonetics? How category learning occurs in adults and children Automatic speech recognition: What phonology can offer Fluid semantics: Semantic knowledge is experience-based and dynamic Subject index