Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind

✍ Scribed by Dani Byrd; Toben H. Mintz

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 569
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written in a lively style, Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind applies a scientific approach to the study of various aspects of speech, using everyday examples to introduce the beginning student to the world of language and cognition. An accessible introduction to the fundamentals of speech production, speech perception, word-formation, language acquisition and speech disorders Considers how the informational content of the speech signal relates to phonological units - connecting the three areas of speech, words, and mind Focuses on speech production and recognition at the word-level and below.  Read more...

Abstract:

Written in a lively style, Discovering Speech, Words, andMind applies a scientific approach to the study of variousaspects of speech, using everyday examples to introduce thebeginning student to the world of language and cognition.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1 Human Language as a Scientific Phenomenon
Section 1: The specialness of language
Section 2: The study of language as a cognitive science
Chapter 2 Speaking, Sound, and Hearing
Section 1: Speaking and transcribing
Section 2: The sound of speech
Section 3: Hearing
Chapter 3 Phonetic Diversity in the World's Languages and Diversity Among Dialects of English
Section 1: Sounds of the world's languages
Section 2: English in the United States and around the world
Chapter 4 The Scientific Method and Experimental Design. Chapter 5 Speech PerceptionSection 1: The lack of invariance and the use of cues in speech perception
Section 2: Ways in which speech perception might be special
Section 3: Discovering words
Chapter 6 Word Recognition
Chapter 7 Phonological Units and Phonological Patterning
Chapter 8 Word Form and Function
Chapter 9 Sign Languages
Chapter 10 Language and the Brain
Chapter 11 Language, Speech, and Hearing Disorders
Chapter 12 Reading and Dyslexia
Appendix --
IPA Chart
Index.

✦ Subjects

Oral communication.;Speech.;Speech perception.;Language and languages.;Spraak.;Verbale communicatie.