The Psychophysics Of Speech Perception

Author : M.E. Schouten
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789400936294

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The Psychophysics of Speech Perception by M.E. Schouten Pdf

The following is a passage from our application for NATO sponsorship: "In the main, the participants in this workshop on the Psychophysics of Speech Perception come from two areas of research: - one area is that of speech perception researc,h, in which the perception of speech sounds is investigated; - the other area is that of psychoacoustics, or auditory psychophysics, in which the perception of simple non-speech sounds, such as pure tones or noise bursts, is investigated, in order to determine the properties of the hearing mechanism. Al though there is widespread agreement among both speech researchers and auditory psychophysicists that there should be a great deal of co-operation between them, the two areas have, generally speaking, remained separate, each with its own research questions, paradigms, and above all, traditions. Psychoacousticians have, so far, continued to investigate the peripheral hearing organ by means of simple sounds, regarding the preoccupations of speech researchers as too many near-empty theories in need of a more solid factual base. Speech perception researchers, on the other hand, have continued to investigate the way human listeners classify vowels and consonants, claiming that psychoacoustics is not concerned with normal, everyday, human perception.

Author : Marten Egbertus Hendrik Schouten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Psychoacoustics
ISBN : 9024726883

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“The” Psychophysics of Speech Perception by Marten Egbertus Hendrik Schouten Pdf

Author : Dominic W. Massaro
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317760467

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Speech Perception By Ear and Eye by Dominic W. Massaro Pdf

First published in 1987. This book is about the processing of information. The central domain of interest is face-to-face communication in which the speaker makes available both audible and visible characteristics to the perceiver. Articulation by the speaker creates changes in atmospheric pressure for hearing and provides tongue, lip, jaw, and facial movements for seeing. These characteristics must be processed by the perceiver to recover the message conveyed by the speaker. The speaker and perceiver must share a language to make communication possible; some internal representation is necessarily functional for the perceiver to recover the message of the speak.

Author : David Pisoni,Robert Remez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470756775

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The Handbook of Speech Perception by David Pisoni,Robert Remez Pdf

The Handbook of Speech Perception is a collection of forward-looking articles that offer a summary of the technical and theoretical accomplishments in this vital area of research on language. Now available in paperback, this uniquely comprehensive companion brings together in one volume the latest research conducted in speech perception Contains original contributions by leading researchers in the field Illustrates technical and theoretical accomplishments and challenges across the field of research and language Adds to a growing understanding of the far-reaching relevance of speech perception in the fields of phonetics, audiology and speech science, cognitive science, experimental psychology, behavioral neuroscience, computer science, and electrical engineering, among others.

Author : Dominic W. Massaro
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483258287

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Understanding Language by Dominic W. Massaro Pdf

Understanding Language: An Information-Processing Analysis of Speech Perception, Reading, and Psycholinguistics focuses on the progress of approaches, principles, and practices involved in speech perception, reading, and psycholinguistics. The selection first offers information on language and information processing, articulatory and acoustic characteristics of speech sounds, and acoustic features in speech perception. Discussions focus on vowel and consonant recognition, production of speech sounds, general acoustic properties and occurrence of speech sounds, vowel phonemes of English, and information, auditory, and visual information processing. The text then examines preperceptual images, processing time, and perceptual units in speech perception, theories of perception, and visual features, preperceptual storage, and processing time in reading. Topics include processing time, visual features, summary of information-processing analysis of speech perception, role of linguistic structure in model building, and preperceptual images and processing time. The manuscript takes a look at an analysis of psychological studies of grammar, word and phrase recognition in speech processing, and linguistic theory and information processing, including psychological function of certain transformation rules, psychological reality of constituent structure, and linguistics and psychology. The selection is a vital source of data for researchers interested in speech perception, reading, and psycholinguistics.

Author : P. D. Eimas,J. L. Miller
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134917426

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Perspectives on the Study of Speech by P. D. Eimas,J. L. Miller Pdf

Published in the year 1982, Perspectives on the Study of Speech is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.

Author : Steven Greenberg,William Ainsworth
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135624903

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Listening to Speech by Steven Greenberg,William Ainsworth Pdf

The human species is largely defined by its use of spoken language, so integral is speech communication to behavior and social interaction. Despite its importance in everyday life, comparatively little is known about the auditory mechanisms that underlie the ability to understand language. The current volume examines the perception and processing of speech from the perspective of the hearing system. The chapters in this book describe a comprehensive set of approaches to the scientific study of speech and hearing, ranging from anatomy and physiology, to psychophysics and perception, and computational modeling. The auditory basis of speech is examined within a biological and an evolutionary context, and its relevance to applied domains such as communication disorders and speech technology discussed in detail. This volume will be of interest to scientists, engineers, and clinicians whose professional work pertains to any aspect of spoken language or hearing science.

Author : Ronald A. Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317272519

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Perception and Production of Fluent Speech by Ronald A. Cole Pdf

Originally published in 1980, this title looks at the mental processes involved in producing and understanding spoken language. Although there had been several edited volumes on speech in the previous ten years, this volume was unique in that it deals exclusively with perception and production of fluent speech. The chapters in this volume, contributed to by distinguished scientists from psychology, linguistics and computer science, deal with such questions as: How are ideas encoded into sound? How does a speaker plan an utterance? How are words recognized? What is the role of knowledge in speech perception? In short, how do people communicate with each other using speech?

Author : Douglas Burnham,Ruth Campbell *G.Away*,B J Dodd
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135471965

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Hearing Eye II by Douglas Burnham,Ruth Campbell *G.Away*,B J Dodd Pdf

This volume outlines some of the developments in practical and theoretical research into speechreading lipreading that have taken place since the publication of the original "Hearing by Eye". It comprises 15 chapters by international researchers in psychology, psycholinguistics, experimental and clinical speech science, and computer engineering. It answers theoretical questions what are the mechanisms by which heard and seen speech combine? and practical ones what makes a good speechreader? Can machines be programmed to recognize seen and seen-and-heard speech?. The book is written in a non-technical way and starts to articulate a behaviourally-based but cross-disciplinary programme of research in understanding how natural language can be delivered by different modalities.

Author : Alvin Meyer Liberman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262121921

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Speech by Alvin Meyer Liberman Pdf

Alvin Liberman and his colleagues at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven created the techniques, the methods, and the insights appropriate to the study of speech perception. This volume brings together a carefully edited collection of twenty-three of their most important research articles, along with an introduction by Liberman that charts the progress of the research - the errors as well as the hits - over the past five decades. Liberman has been the main analytic and synthesizing scientist in the development of a field that holds a fascination for anyone interested in the place of speech in the biological scheme of things. The more specific implications cover a broad range: at the one extreme, the problems associated with the machine production and recognition of speech; at the other, our understanding of how children learn to read its alphabetic transcriptions, and why some cannot.

Author : W. A. Ainsworth
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781483137926

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Mechanisms of Speech Recognition by W. A. Ainsworth Pdf

Mechanisms of Speech Recognition explores the mechanisms underlying speech recognition. Topics covered include the auditory system, speech production, auditory psychophysics, speech synthesis and analysis, vowel and consonant recognition, and perception of prosodic features and of distorted speech. Automatic speech recognition and models of speech recognition are also given consideration. This volume consists of 11 chapters and begins with an overview of speech recognition, communication, and production. More specifically, it examines the way in which the organs of the vocal apparatus are employed to transform a message consisting of a string of linguistic units, such as words or phonemes, into a wave of continuous sounds which are recognized as speech. The auditory system and its parts are then described, from the ears to the organ of Corti and nerve cells. The chapters that follow focus on the behavior of the hearing system, the various techniques of analyzing speech sounds, and speech synthesizers such as vocoders. The mechanisms underlying the recognition of vowels and consonants are also described, along with the physical parameters of the speech wave which signal the prosody of an utterance, the effects of distortions in the speech wave on speech perception, and tools used in automatic speech recognition. The book concludes with an evaluation of models of speech recognition. This book will be of interest to phoneticians, linguists, physiologists, psychologists, and physicists.

Author : Ruth Campbell,Barbara Dodd,Denis K. Burnham
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0863775020

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Hearing by Eye II by Ruth Campbell,Barbara Dodd,Denis K. Burnham Pdf

This volume outlines developments in practical and theoretical research into speechreading lipreading.

Author : Michael Studdert-Kennedy,Ignatius G. Mattingly
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317785064

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Modularity and the Motor theory of Speech Perception by Michael Studdert-Kennedy,Ignatius G. Mattingly Pdf

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.

Author : Yoh'ichi Tohkura,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,Yoshinori Sagisaka
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 4274076903

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Speech Perception, Production and Linguistic Structure by Yoh'ichi Tohkura,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,Yoshinori Sagisaka Pdf

Author : H. Pick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781468426199

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Perception and Experience by H. Pick Pdf

In recent years, significant, indeed dramatic, advances have occurred in the study of perception. These have been made possible by, and, in fact, in clude methodological advances such as the development of signal detection theory and the application of linear systems analysis to auditory and visual per ception. They are reflected in an interest in the study of ecologically valid perceptual problems, e. g. , control of locomotion, speech perception, reading, perceptual-motor coordination, and perception of events. At the same time, exciting new insights have been gained to some of the classical problems of perception-stereoscopic vision, color vision, attention, position constancy, to mention a few. A broad, comparative approach to perception has also been taken. This approach, which includes the detailed study of human infant per ception as well as cross-cultural and cross-species investigations, has given us a very broad perspective of the perceptual process. In this context, the present volume inaugurates a new series entitled' 'Per ception and Perceptual Development: A Critical Review Series. " The editors are particularly gratified by the enthusiastic support for their ideas by Seymour Weingarten of Plenum Press. He and the editorial staff of Plenum Press have been of immense help in initiating the series as well as helping with the details of this first volume.