TY - JOUR
T1 - Speech perception as categorization
AU - Holt, Lori L.
AU - Lotto, Andrew J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors were supported by collaborative awards from the National Science Foundation (BCS0746067) and the National Institutes of Health (R01DC004674).
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - Speech perception (SP) most commonly refers to the perceptual mapping from the highly variable acoustic speech signal to a linguistic representation, whether it be phonemes, diphones, syllables, or words. This is an example of categorization, in that potentially discriminable speech sounds are assigned to functionally equivalent classes. In this tutorial, we present some of the main challenges to our understanding of the categorization of speech sounds and the conceptualization of SP that has resulted from these challenges. We focus here on issues and experiments that define open research questions relevant to phoneme categorization, arguing that SP is best understood as perceptual categorization, a position that places SP in direct contact with research from other areas of perception and cognition.
AB - Speech perception (SP) most commonly refers to the perceptual mapping from the highly variable acoustic speech signal to a linguistic representation, whether it be phonemes, diphones, syllables, or words. This is an example of categorization, in that potentially discriminable speech sounds are assigned to functionally equivalent classes. In this tutorial, we present some of the main challenges to our understanding of the categorization of speech sounds and the conceptualization of SP that has resulted from these challenges. We focus here on issues and experiments that define open research questions relevant to phoneme categorization, arguing that SP is best understood as perceptual categorization, a position that places SP in direct contact with research from other areas of perception and cognition.
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U2 - 10.3758/APP.72.5.1218
DO - 10.3758/APP.72.5.1218
M3 - Review article
C2 - 20601702
AN - SCOPUS:77957684020
SN - 1943-3921
VL - 72
SP - 1218
EP - 1227
JO - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
JF - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
IS - 5
ER -