Handbook of Speech Perception (eBook)

Jennifer S. Pardo is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Speech Communication Laboratory at Montclair State University, USA. Her research on the production and perception of spoken language in conversational interaction and on understanding variation and convergence in phonetic form has appeared in Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Phonetics, and Language and Speech. Lynne C. Nygaard is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, and the Speech and Language Communication Laboratory at Emory University, USA. Her research on the perceptual, cognitive, biological, and social underpinnings of human spoken communication has appeared in many journals, including Psychological Science, Brain and Language, and Cognitive Science. Robert E. Remez is Professor of Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University, USA, and Chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Language and Cognition. His research has been published in many scientific and technical journals, including American Psychologist, Developmental Psychology, Ear and Hearing, Experimental Aging Research, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and Journal of Experimental Psychology. David B. Pisoni is Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Chancellor's Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA. He has made significant contributions in basic, applied, and clinical research in areas of speech perception, production, synthesis, and spoken language processing.

List of Contributors vii

Foreword to the Second Edition ix

Foreword to the First Edition xi

Preface xiv

Part I Sensing Speech 1

1 Perceptual Organization of Speech 3
Robert E. Remez

2 Primacy of Multimodal Speech Perception for the Brain and Science 28
Lawrence D. Rosenblum and Josh Dorsi

3 How Does the Brain Represent Speech? 58
Oiwi Parker Jones and Jan W. H. Schnupp

4 Perceptual Control of Speech 97
K. G. Munhall, Anja ]Xiaoxing Cui, Ellen O'Donoghue, Steven Lamontagne and David Lutes

Part II Perception of Linguistic Properties 123

5 Features in Speech Perception and Lexical Access 125
Sheila E. Blumstein

6 Speaker Normalization in Speech Perception 145
Keith Johnson and Matthias J. Sjerps

7 Clear Speech Perception: Linguistic and Cognitive Benefits 177
Rajka Smiljanic

8 A Comprehensive Approach to Specificity Effects in Spoken ]Word Recognition 206
Conor T. McLennan and Sara Incera

9 Word Stress in Speech Perception 239
Anne Cutler and Alexandra Jesse

10 Slips of the Ear 266
Z. S. Bond

11 Phonotactics in Spoken ]Word Recognition 286
Michael S. Vitevitch and Faisal M. Aljasser

12 Perception of Formulaic Speech: Structural and Prosodic Characteristics of Formulaic Expressions 309
Diana Van Lancker Sidtis and Seung yun Yang

Part III Perception of Indexical Properties 333

13 Perception of Dialect Variation 335
Cynthia G. Clopper

14 Who We Are: Signaling Personal Identity in Speech 365
Diana Van Lancker Sidtis and Romi Zäske

15 Perceptual Integration of Linguistic and Non ]Linguistic Properties of Speech 398
Lynne C. Nygaard and Christina Y. Tzeng

16 Perceptual Learning of Accented Speech 428
Tessa Bent and Melissa Baese ]Berk

17 Perception of Indexical Properties of Speech by Children 465
Susannah V. Levi

Part IV Speech Perception by Special Listeners 485

18 Speech Perception by Children: The Structural Refinement and Differentiation Model 487
Susan Nittrouer

19 Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and Auditory ]Visual Integration: Three Phenomena in Search of Empirical Support 517
Mitchell S. Sommers

20 Some Neuromyths and Challenging Questions about Cochlear Implants 540
Cynthia R. Hunter and David B. Pisoni

21 Speech Perception Following Focal Brain Injury 570
Emily B. Myers

Part V Theoretical Perspectives 603

22 Acoustic Cues to the Perception of Segmental Phonemes 605
Lawrence J. Raphael

23 On the Relation between Speech Perception and Speech Production 632
Jennifer S. Pardo and Robert E. Remez

24 Speech Perception and Reading Ability: What Has Been Learned from Studies of Categorical Perception, Nonword Repetition, and Speech in Noise? 656
Susan Brady and Axelle Calcus

25 Cognitive Audiology: An Emerging Landscape in Speech Perception 697
David B. Pisoni

Index 733