Modularity and the Motor theory of Speech Perception: Proceedings of A Conference To Honor Alvin M. Liberman

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Synopsis
A compilation of the proceedings of a conference held to honor Alvin M. Liberman for his outstanding contributions to research in speech perception, this volume deals with two closely related and controversial proposals for which Liberman and his colleagues at Haskins Laboratories have argued forcefully over the past 35 years. The first is that articulatory gestures are the units not only of speech production but also of speech perception; the second is that speech production and perception are not cognitive processes, but rather functions of a special mechanism. This book explores the implications of these proposals not only for speech production and speech perception, but for the neurophysiology of language, language acquisition, higher-level linguistic processing, the visual perception of phonetic gestures, the production and perception of sign language, the reading process, and learning to read. The contributors to this volume include linguists, psycholinguists, speech scientists, neurophysiologists, and ethologists. Liberman himself responds in the final chapter.
Copyright:
1990

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
480 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317785064
Related ISBNs:
9781315807942, 9780805803310, 9780805803310, 9781138875999, 9781138875999
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Psychology, Language Arts, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Michael Studdert-Kennedy
Edited by:
Ignatius G. Mattingly

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