Cues to What? A Comment on Diehl and Kluender 'On the Objects of Speech Perception'
Titel:
Cues to What? A Comment on Diehl and Kluender 'On the Objects of Speech Perception'
Auteur:
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael
Verschenen in:
Ecological psychology
Paginering:
Jaargang 1 (1989) nr. 2 pagina's 181-193
Jaar:
1989-06-01
Inhoud:
The principle of auditory enhancement is a valuable extension of the theory of adaptive dispersion. However, neither the principle nor the theory has any bearing on what we perceive in speech. All perceptual objects, including those of speech, are abstract, amodal structures made available to cognition through one or more sensory modalities. A focus on the modalities or media of information transfer in speech perception diverts attention from two central and related aspects of speech function: perceptuomotor functional equivalence and imitation. Arguments and evidence from studies of lipreading, short-term memory, and infant behavior are put forward to support the postulation of an output unit, the phonetic gesture, at a level in the communication chain corresponding on the input side to the acoustic cue. The object of speech perception is then taken to be the amodal phonetic segment, a cohesive set of direct mappings between sound and gesture.
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