Spoken Word Access Processes (SWAP): A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes (Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138877859 ISBN 13: 9781138877856

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2015

Synopsis

Spoken word access processes are the mental processes which underlie our ability to recognise spoken words. They are the perceptual processes which take the sequence of buzzes, bursts and chirps that make up the raw speech signal and convert them into a sequence of words. This edited volume contains articles and short reports which examine these processes. These papers are based on presentations at the workshop Spoken Word Access Processes (SWAP), held in Nijmegen in May 2000. They cover the major issues that the field is now concerned with, and thus provide a snapshot of the current state of the SWAP art. Core representational issues about spoken words are addressed: the form of the representations which are used to access the mental lexicon; how phonological information is coded in the lexicon; and how morphological and semantic information about each word is stored. The main components of the lexical access process are also discussed: competition between candidate words; computation of goodness-of-fit between the signal and stored lexical knowledge; segmentation of continuous speech into words; whether there is feedback from the lexicon to earlier stages of processing; and the relationship of form-based processes to the processes responsible for deriving interpretations of utterances. This collection should be essential reading for those working in this or related areas of psycholinguistics. An introductory article is included which makes this research more accessible to students in cognitive psychology and phonetics, and to specialists in other fields of psychology and linguistics.

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About the Author:

Anne Cutler is Director of the Language Comprehension Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Professor, MARCS Institute at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Anne Cutler is Director of the Language Comprehension Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Professor, MARCS Institute at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138877859
• ISBN 13: 9781138877856
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Cutler Anne, MCQUEEN James