PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Kanji, Function Word, Tachistoscope
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Main points: the study of speech sounds is called phonetics, articulatory phonetics refers to the study of how speech sounds are produced, acoustic phonetics refers to the study of the resulting speech sounds. Speech exhibits characteristics not found in other forms of auditory perception: the phenomenon of categorical perception suggests that speech is a special mode of perception. Stress correctly responds closely to loudness: intonation refers to the use of pitch to signify different meanings, the pitch pattern of a sentence is called its intonational contour. Acoustic phonetics: spectrograms, one of the most common ways of describing the acoustical energy of speech sounds is called a sound spectrogram. It reveals the important point that production, like the physical signal that results from it, tends to vary with the phonetic context. It would appear that the more predictable a passage is, the better it is recognized: top-down processing of continuous speech seems most likely.
