Workshop on the Transition from Speech Sounds to Spoken Words

摘要

Listeners use language-specific knowledge to impose perceptual structure onspeech. Since this Knowledge must be learned through linguistic experience,data on the development of speech perception could constrain theories of adult speech perception. This workshop focused on the transitions in the perceptual processing of speech from infancy to adulthood. The workshop consisted of nine presentations over a two-day period in June, 1989. Several researchers argued that dynamic mechanisms are critical for relating the acquisition and use of linguistic of learning and attention were targeted as being critical to the development of speech perception. Further, since listeners appear to use information from several levels of linguistic analysis and to cross-correlate knowledge about perception and production, a complete theory of spoken language understanding must address how different forms of linguistic knowledge are related in perceptual processing. Keywords: Speech perception, Perceptual development, Spoken language, Auditory perception, Word recognition, Phonetics. (js)