On the immediacy of phonetic perception

Article Abstract:

Language is seen as a specialization, therefore perception of its consonantal elements should be phonetic, rather than a secondary translation from auditory percepts. An experiment whereby formant transitions distinguishing (da) and (ga) were presented as sinusoids combined with synthetic syllables comprising resonances, was undertaken. This led the auditory system to treat the acoustically incoherent parts as different sources. Consonants were accurately identified over the 60-dB range. Thus the phonetic percept was present when the auditory counterpart was absent.

Phonetics

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Chomsky's theory of language: some recent observations

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Chomsky introduced the theories explaining language acquisition in children and language performance in adults. His principles and parameters theory of language development is reviewed.The development of language proceeds irregardless of cognitive and general learningabilities and communicative social abilities. It is a cerebral function independent of tools of expression and reception and nonlinguistic motor and symbolic functions. Language acquisition is characterized by an ordered abstract morphosyntactic competence early in its course.

Criticism and interpretation, Chomsky, Noam

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Rapid gains in speed of verbal processing by infants in the 2nd year

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The developmental changes in the speed and accuracy of word recognition among infants aged 15 to 24 months were studied using observations of eye movements as they view pictures in reaction to spoken words. It was hypothesized that word competence in infants dramatically increase during the second year of life. Results revealed that infants' reaction latency to a spoken word was affected by the time for linguistic processing and time required to program a change in gaze to the right picture.

Word recognition

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