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Semester 2

Speech Production and Perception (LASC10104)

Subject

Language Sciences and Linguistics

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students should have completed at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above. These courses must have included a basic introduction to phonetics and phonology. We will only consider University/College level courses.

Course Summary

This course will introduce students to theories of representations and processes in speech production and perception, along with supporting experimental evidence from classic and more recent journal articles. Some of the questions addressed are the nature of phonological representations used in speech production planning and perception, how articulations are controlled and coordinated, how articulatory patterns map onto acoustics, and how the acoustic signal is decoded into mental representations.

Course Description

Examples of topics to be covered include: - What types of representations are used in speech production? Speech error evidence for sub-lexical representations and prosodic frames - Are the goals of speech production muscular, articulatory, or acoustic? Motor equivalence and bite block experiments. - How does speech production planning and motor control work? What types of cognitive representations and processes are involved? What are the implications of different proposed types of phonological representations? - What is the role of feedback in speech production? - From articulation to acoustics. Tube models - How do production processes influence phonological inventories? Quantal Theory - The ear - Psychoacoustics - How does speech perception influence inventories of phonological categories? Enhancement Theory and Dispersion Theory. - Speech perception is not the same as pure tone perception. Categorical perception. - What types of processes are involved in speech perception? Auditory vs. Cognitive processes: Motor Theory and alternatives. Animal and infant studies. - Integrating higher level, cognitive information with lower level auditory information - Perceptual constancy and normalization. Context effects in speech perception. - The nature of phonological representations used in speech perception

Assessment Information

Written Exam 45%, Coursework 55%, Practical Exam 0%

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