PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Articulatory Phonetics, Vocal Tract, Speech Perception
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Prosodic factors stress, intonation and rate prosody are aspects of utterances that are not specific to the wrds but influence overall meaning stress refers to emphasis of syllables in a sentence and corresponds with loudness. Perception of continuous speech acoustic information may be insufficient by itself to identify speech souds, we must know the context in order to interpret correctly. Midpronounciation detection- lieklihodd of detection depends on he place in a word or sentence, detection performance was better for mispronounciation at the beginning of a word compared with later. Levels of written language processing feature level, stimulus is represented in terms of the physical features that comprise a letter of the alphabet at letter level, visual stimulus is represented more abstractly an separate from ts physical minfestation. Wod level, array of features and letters is recognized as a familiar word.
