Converging evidence for abstract phonological knowledge in speech processing

Anne Cutler

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Abstract

![CDATA[The perceptual processing of speech is a constant interplay of multiple competing albeit convergent processes: acoustic input vs. higher-level representations, universal mechanisms vs. language-specific, veridical traces of speech experience vs. construction and activation of abstract representations. The present summary concerns the third of these issues. The ability to generalise across experience and to deal with resulting abstractions is the hallmark of human cognition, visible even in early infancy. In speech processing, abstract representations play a necessary role in both production and perception. New sorts of evidence are now informing our understanding of the breadth of this role. Two earlier and more detailed reviews of the role of abstraction in speech processing (Cutler, 2008; 2010) also embrace, respectively, evidence on the lexical representation of form versus meaning, and evidence on prosodic processing.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2017), 26-29 July 2017, London, U.K.
PublisherCognitive Science Society
Pages1447-1448
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9780991196760
Publication statusPublished - 2017
EventAnnual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society -
Duration: 1 Jan 2017 → …

Conference

ConferenceAnnual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Period1/01/17 → …

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