The Development of Speech Perception

The Transition from Speech Sounds to Spoken Words

Judith C. Goodman, Howard C. Nusbaum (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

363 Seiten

1994
MIT Press (Verlag)
9780262071543 (ISBN)

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This comprehensive collection of current research in the development of speech perception and perceptual learning documents the striking changes that take place both in early childhood and throughout life and speculates about the mechanisms responsible for those changes. The findings reported from this rich and active field address the role of growing linguistic knowledge and experience and demonstrate that speech perception develops in a bidirectional interplay with several levels of linguistic structure and cognitive processes.

Examining transitions in the perceptual processing of speech from infancy to adulthood as well as what causes these transitions, the contributors take up a broad range of issues that are central to constructing a theory of speech perception and to understanding the development of this ability. These include the nature of infants' early sensory proficiencies, how these skills come to support the recognition of linguistic units, developmental differences in the representation and processing of linguistic units, the acquisition of early word patterns and a phonological system, and the mechanisms behind perceptual learning.

The Development of Speech Perception is unique in attempting to integrate research involving infants, young children, and adults and in its thorough treatment of developmental issues in speech perception. It systematically explores how adult perceptual abilities begin to develop from early infant capabilities, and in doing so addresses several levels of linguistic processing.

Introduction: developing theories of speech perception - constraints from developmental data, Judith C. Goodman et al. Part 1 Innate sensory mechanisms and constraints on learning: observations on speech perception, its development, and the search for a mechanism, Joanne L. Miller and Peter D. Eimas; the importance of childhood to language acquisition - evidence from American sign language, Rachel I. Mayberry. Part 2 Perceptual learning of phonological systems: cross-language speech perception - developmental change does not involve loss, Janet F. Werker; perceptual learning of non-native speech contrasts - implications for theories of speech perception, David B. Pisoni et al; the emergence of native-language phonological influences in infants - a perceptual assimilation model, Catherine T. Best. Part 3 Interactions of linguistic levels - influences on perceptual development: infant speech perception and the development of the mental lexicon, Peter W. Jusczyk; sentential processes in early child language - evidence from the perception and production of function morphemes, LouAnn Gerken; learning to hear speech as spoken language, Howard C. Nusbaum and Judith C. Goodman.

Reihe/Serie	Language, Speech, and Communication
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 231 mm
Gewicht	703 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780262071543 / 9780262071543
Zustand	Neuware