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contextual influences on the perception of `phonetic categories'
Sarah Hawkins University of Cambridge
sh110@cam.ac.uk
Issues
? Context and phoneme/word identification
? Structuring a model of speech understanding ? top-down vs. bottom-up information ? abstraction vs exemplar representation
We can understand speech because there's an invariant acoustic correlate for every
one of Morris' features
O/hTLw/bayaaahgen/iaodH/tshsisoBu?aouninuSnrtdnmiodndHigwtnhtdaohhgeowleyhlnsyaasa?dimwamiomo?aeeonseindni'nt
Fine phonetic detail (FPD): random or systematic?
much is systematic & perceptually salient
but does NOT help to identify citation form words or phonemes
Fine phonetic detail indicates:
? position in syllable; syllable structure ? word boundaries ? grammatical status ? places where you can join in a conversation ? discourse function of `the same' words ? other things crucial to a normal conversation ? gross and subtle indexical information
Systematizing fine phonetic detail
? a different way of conceptualizing
? phonetic and phonological structure (Firthian) ? the processes of understanding speech
? Journal of Phonetics 31(3/4) especially John Local; Sarah Hawkins
? Hawkins & Smith (2001)
Italian Journal of Linguistics ? Riv. de Ling. 13, 99-188
Systematizing fine phonetic detail
? a different way of conceptualizing
? phonetic and phonological structure (Firthian)
? the processes of understanding speech
? Journal of Phonetics 31(3/4) especially John Local; Sarah Hawkins
? Hawkins & Smith (2001)
Italian Journal of Linguistics ? Riv. de Ling. 13, 99-188
What is a category?
A class or division in a system of classification
(OED)
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