Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind

✍ Scribed by Dani Byrd, Toben H. Mintz

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 344
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind examines language as a cognitive science, applying scientific tools to the study of various aspects of speech. Written in a lively and highly accessible style for students with no background in linguistics or psychology, readers are guided through the fundamentals of speech production, speech perception, word-formation, language acquisition and speech disorders.

Focusing on speech production and recognition at the word-level and below, the book examines morphological, phonological, and phonetic perspectives. It explicitly connects three avenues of exploration – speech, words, and mind – through an examination of how the informational content of the speech signal relates to phonological units; it goes on to describe how these units combine in the morphological structuring of words and are accessed as the speech signal is processed by the listener. Featuring numerous illustrations and exercises, and accompanied by further online exercises and data, this is an ideal introduction to the science of language.

✦ Table of Contents

Section 1: The specialness of language......Page 11
Section 2: The study of language as a cognitive science......Page 22
Section 1: Speaking and transcribing......Page 34
Section 2: The sound of speech......Page 62
Section 3: Hearing......Page 76
Section 1: Sounds of the world’s languages......Page 85
Section 2: English in the United States and around the world......Page 102
Chapter 4 The Scientific Method and Experimental Design......Page 113
Section 1: The lack of invariance and the use of cues in speech perception......Page 129
Section 2: Ways in which speech perception might be special......Page 143
Section 3: Discovering words......Page 167
Chapter 6 Word Recognition......Page 177
Chapter 7 Phonological Units and Phonological Patterning......Page 201
Chapter 8 Word Form and Function......Page 226
Chapter 9 Sign Languages......Page 244
Chapter 10 Language and the Brain......Page 264
Chapter 11 Language, Speech, and Hearing Disorders......Page 289
Chapter 12 Reading and Dyslexia......Page 306
Appendix – IPA Chart......Page 329
Index......Page 331