Speech: A Special Code (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change Series) - Hardcover

Liberman, Alvin M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262121921 ISBN 13: 9780262121927

Publisher: Bradford Books, 1996

Synopsis

Alvin Liberman and his colleagues at the Haskins Laboratory 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 collecton 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 must hold a fascination for those interested, most generally, 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 can't.Major Sections : On the Spectrogram as a Visible Display of Speech. Finding the Cues. Categorical Perception. An Early Attempt to Put It All Together. A Mid-Course Correction. The Revised Motor Theory. Some Properties of the Phonetic Module. More about the Function and Properties of the Phonetic Module. Auditory vs. Phonetic Modes. Reading/Writing Are Hard Just Because Speaking/Listening Are Easy.Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change series

About this title

About the Author:

Alvin Liberman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and of Linguistics at Yale University.

Review:

"In Speech, Alvin Liberman leaps from milestone to milestone in his four decades-long exploration of the speech module. It leads inevitably to the deep insight that the parity of speech perception and production hinges on articulatory gestures, which are ab initio unique to both speech and mankind. Willem Levelt, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

"What Liberman has done in this volume is to weave together thehistory and scientific substance of the field; as such it is morethan the set of findings, marvelous as these are: It succeeds inbeing a disquisition on the process of scientific discovery quitebroadly. As the best bonus of all, Liberman has brought hisincredible humor, grace, and style into the writing. This is afabulous work; it will be of lasting interest to quite a widescientific audience ranging from psychologists to cognitivescientists to philosophers of science." Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania

About this edition

• Publisher: Bradford Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0262121921
• ISBN 13: 9780262121927
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 504