01:615:371 Lecture Notes - Silent Night, Mondegreen, Text Segmentation
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Not the case that producing a phoneme is a motor program for manner of articulation or place of articulation. It is affected by the rate at which you speak, the pitch, the phonological context, etc. In some ways it gets worse, it doesn"t mean small muscles have to e coordinated to speak and produce speech. As difficult as the speech production problem is, the speech perception part is even more difficult. The key concepts of speech perception: (see slide) Dog does not equal d + o+ g. nor does sound wave equal string of words the dog is sitting does not equal the-dog-is-sitting. In every way that speech signals are produced, they have to be understood by someone else. The first problem that presents itself is the. Phoneme segmentation: dog does not equal d +o +g. Word segmentation: this is something that small children are not very good at in the beginning of their linguistic journey.