The Subject of Speech Perception: An Analysis of the Philosophical Foundations of the Information-Processing Model

✍ Scribed by Helen Fraser (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses and challenges the metatheoretical framework which supports information-processing models of human speech perception. The first part consists of a review of speech perception research in the information-processing paradigm; an overview of the cognitivist philosophy from which this approach takes its justification; and an introduction to some relevant themes of phenomenological philosophy. The second half uses the phenomenological insights discussed to demonstrate some inadequacies of cognitivism; to show how these inadequacies underlie problems with the information-processing theory; and suggests an alternative framework with significant change of focus.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Review of Research on Human Speech Perception....Pages 1-37
Cognitivist Philosophy....Pages 38-73
Phenomenological Philosophy....Pages 74-124
Subject and World....Pages 125-160
Towards a New Framework....Pages 161-211
Conclusion....Pages 212-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-250

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Language;Linguistics, general;Phonology;Cognitive Psychology