Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Role of Psychophysics in Understanding Speech Perception

  • Chapter
The Psychophysics of Speech Perception

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASID,volume 39))

Abstract

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the psychophysics of speech perception. The program includes a variety of topics that presumably fall under this heading and that demonstrate that the psychophysics of speech perception is alive and well. Yet it is not really obvious what the psychophysics of speech perception is, what its goals and limitations are, and whether it is indeed a circumscribed area of investigation. It seems useful, therefore, to pose these basic questions explicitly and to include them in our discussions along with the many specific issues addressed by our research. The purpose of my paper is to stimulate such discussion by presenting a particular, possibly controversial, view of speech perception, psychophysics, and the relation between the two.

Preparation of this paper was supported by NICHD Grant HD-01994 to Haskins Laboratories. I am grateful to Al Bregman, Bob Crowder, Jim Flege, Ignatius Mattingly, Robert Remez, and Michael Studdert-Kennedy for helpful comments on an earlier draft.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 259.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 329.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 329.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Abramson, A., and Lisker, L. (1985). Relative power of cues: FO versus voice timing. In V.A. Fromkin (Ed.), Phonetic linguistics. Essays in honor of Peter Ladefoged. New York: Academic. Pp. 25–33.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Abramson, A.S., Nye, P.W., Henderson, J.B., and Marshall, C.W. (1981). Vowel height and the perception of consonantal nasality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70, 329–339.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Ainsworth, W.A., and Lindsay, D. (1986). Perception of pitch movement on tonic syllables in British English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 79, 472–480.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Atal, B.S., Chang, J.J., Mathews, M.V., and Tukey, J.W. (1978). Inversion of articulatory-to-acoustic transformation in the vocal tract by a computer-sorting technique. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 63, 1535–1555.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Bailey, P.J., and Summerfield, Q. (1980). Information in speech: Observations on the perception of [s]-stop clusters. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 6, 536–563.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Bladon, R.A.W., and Lindblom, B.E.F. (1981). Modeling the judgment of vowel quality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 69, 1414–1422.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Blomberg, M., Carlson, R., Elenius, K. and Granström, B. (1986). Auditory models as front ends in speech recognition systems. In J.S. Perkell and D.H. Klatt (Eds.), Invariance and variability in speech processes. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. Pp. 108–114.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Blumstein, S.E., and Stevens, K.N. (1979). Acoustic invariance in speech production: Evidence from measurements of the spectral characteristics of stop consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 66, 1001–1017.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Browman, C.P., and Goldstein, L.M. (1985). Dynamic modeling of phonetic structure. In V.A. Fromkin (Ed.), Phonetic linguistics. Essays in honor of Peter Ladefoged. New York: Academic. Pp. 35–53.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Bregman, A.S. (1977). Perception and behavior as compositions of ideals. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 250–292.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Chistovich, L.A. (1971). Problems of speech perception. In L.L. Hammerich, R. Jakobson, and E. Zwirner, (Eds.), Form & substance. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag. Pp. 83–93.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Chistovich, L.A. (1980). Auditory processing of speech. Language and Speech, 23, 67–75.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  13. Chistovich, L.A. (1985). Central auditory processing of peripheral vowel spectra. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 77, 789–805.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  14. Chistovich, L.A., Fant, G., de Serpa-Leitao, A., and Tjernlund, P. (1966). Mimicking and perception of synthetic vowels. Quarterly Progress and Status Report (Royal Technical University, Speech Transmission Laboratory, Stockholm), 2, 1–18.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Chomsky, N. (1965). Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Chomsky, N. (1968). Language and mind. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Darwin, C.J. (1984). Perceiving vowels in the presence of another sound: Constraints on formant perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 76, 1636–1647.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  18. Denes, P.B., and Pinson, E.N. (1963). The speech chain. Bell Telephone Laboratories.

    Google Scholar 

  19. Derr, M.A., and Massaro, D.W. (1980). The contribution of vowel duration, F0 contour, and frication duration as cues to the /juz/-/jus/ distinction. Perception & Psychophysics, 27, 51–59.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  20. Elliot, L.L., Longinotti, C, Clifton, L.-A., and Meyer, D. (1981). Detection and identification thresholds for consonant-vowel syllables. Perception & Psychophysics, 30, 411–416.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  21. Elman, J.L., and McClelland, J.L. (1984). Speech perception as a cognitive process: The interactive activation model. In N.J. Lass (Ed.), Speech and Language: Advances in research and practice. Vol. 10. New York: Academic. Pp. 337–374.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Elman, J.L., and McClelland, J.L. (1986). Exploiting lawful variability in the speech wave. In J.S. Perkell and D.H. Klatt (Eds.), Invariance and variability in speech processes. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 360–380.

    Google Scholar 

  23. Flege, J.E. (in press). The production and perception of foreign language speech sounds. In H. Winitz (Ed.), Human communication and its disorders, Vol. 1. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

    Google Scholar 

  24. Fodor, J. (1983). The modularity of mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  25. Fónagy, I. (1961). Communication in poetry. Word, 17, 194–218.

    Google Scholar 

  26. Fowler, C.A. (1984). Segmentation of coarticulated speech in perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 36, 359–368.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  27. Fujisaki, H., and Kawashima, T. (1969). On the modes and mechanisms of speech perception. Annual Report of the Engineering Research Institute (Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo), 28, 67–73.

    Google Scholar 

  28. Fujisaki, H., and Kawashima, T. (1970). Some experiments on speech perception and a model for the perceptual mechanism. Annual Report of the Engineering Research Institute (Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo), 29, 207–214.

    Google Scholar 

  29. Ganong, W.F., III, and Zatorre, R.J. (1980). Measuring phoneme boundaries four ways. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 68, 431–439.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  30. Gibson, J.J. (1966). The senses considered as perceptual systems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Green, K.P., and Miller, J.L. (1985). On the role of visual rate information in phonetic perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 38, 269–276.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  32. Grossberg, S. (1986). The adaptive self-organization of serial order in behavior: Speech, language, and motor control. In E.C. Schwab and H.C. Nusbaum (Eds.), Pattern recognition by humans and machines, Vol. I. New York: Academic.

    Google Scholar 

  33. Hary, J.M., and Massaro, D.W. (1982). Categorical results do not imply categorical perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 32, 409–418.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  34. Hayek, F.A. (1952). The sensory order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  35. Howell, P., and Rosen, S. (1983). Production and perception of rise time in the voiceless affricate/fricative distinction. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 73, 976–984.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  36. Hrushovski, B. (1980). The meaning of sound patterns in poetry. Poetics Today, 2, 39–56.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  37. Jusczyk, P.W. (1985). On characterizing the development of speech perception. In J. Mehler and R. Fox (Eds.), Neonate cognition: Beyond the blooming buzzing confusion. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 199–229.

    Google Scholar 

  38. Jusczyk, P.W. (1986). Toward a model of the development of speech perception. In J.S. Perkell and D.H. Klatt (Eds.), Invariance and variability in speech processes. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 1–18.

    Google Scholar 

  39. Kasuya, H., Takeuchi, S., Sato, S., and Kido, K. (1982). Articulatory parameters for the perception of bilabials. Phonetica, 39, 61–70.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  40. Kelso, J.A.S., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., Saltzman, E.L., and Kay, B. (1985). A qualitative dynamic analysis of reiterant speech production: Phase portraits, kinematics, and dynamic modeling. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 77, 266–280.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  41. Kent, R.D. (1973). The imitation of synthetic vowels and some implications for speech memory. Phonetica, 28, 1–25.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  42. Klatt, D.H. (1979). Speech perception: a model of acoustic-phonetic analysis and lexical access. Journal of Phonetics, 7, 276–312.

    Google Scholar 

  43. Klatt, D.H. (1982). Prediction of perceived phonetic distance from critical-band spectra: A first step. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Paris, France. Pp. 1278–1281.

    Google Scholar 

  44. Klatt, D.H. (1986). Problem of variability in speech recognition and in models of speech perception. In J.S. Perkell and D.H. Klatt (Eds.), Invariance and variability in speech processes. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 300–319.

    Google Scholar 

  45. Kuhl, P.K. (1979). Speech perception in early infancy: Perceptual constancy for spectrally dissimilar vowel categories. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 66, 1668–1679.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  46. Kuhl, P.K. (1981). Discrimination of speech by nonhuman animals: Basic auditory sensitivities conducive to the perception of speech-sound categories. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70, 340–349.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  47. Kuhl, P.K. (1985). Categorization of speech by infants. In J. Mehler and R. Fox (Eds.), Neonate cognition: Beyond the blooming buzzing confusion. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 231–262.

    Google Scholar 

  48. Kuhl, P.K., and Meltzoff, A.N. (1982). The bimodal perception of speech in infancy. Science, 218, 1138–1141.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  49. Ladefoged, P., Harshman, R., Goldstein, L., and Rice, L. (1978). Generating vocal tract shapes from formant frequencies. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 64, 1027–1035.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  50. Liberman, A.M. (1982). On finding that speech is special. American Psychologist, 37, 148–167.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  51. Liberman, A.M., and Mattingly, I.G. (1985). The motor theory of speech perception revised. Cognition 21, 1–36.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  52. Lindblom, B. (1983). Economy of speech gestures. In P.F. MacNeilage (Ed.), The production of speech. New York: Springer-Verlag. Pp. 207–246.

    Google Scholar 

  53. Lindblom, B., MacNeilage, P., and Studdert-Kennedy, M. (1983). Self-organizing processes and the explanation of phonological universals. In B. Butterworth, B. Comrie, and D. Dahl (Eds.), Explanations of linguistic universals. The Hague: Mouton. Pp. 181–203.

    Google Scholar 

  54. Lindblom, B.E.F., and Sundberg, J.E.F. (1971). Acoustical consequences of lip, tongue, jaw, and larynx movement. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 50, 1166–1179.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  55. Linell, P. (1982). The concept of phonological form and the activities of speech production and speech perception. Journal of Phonetics, 10, 37–72.

    Google Scholar 

  56. Lisker, L., Liberman, A.M., Erickson, D.M., Dechovitz, D., and Mandler, R. (1977). On pushing the voice-onset-time (VOT) boundary about. Language and Speech, 20, 209–216.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  57. MacKain, K.S., Best, C.T. and Strange, W. (1981). Categorical perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese bilinguals. Applied Psycholinguistics, 2, 369–390.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  58. Macmillan, N.A., Kaplan, H.L., and Creelman, C.D. (1977). The psychophysics of categorical perception. Psychological Review, 84, 452–471.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  59. Marks, L.E. (1978). The unity of the senses. New York: Academic.

    Google Scholar 

  60. Marslen-Wilson, W.D., and Welsh, A. (1978). Processing interactions and lexical access during word recognition in continuous speech. Cognitive Psychology, 10, 29–63.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  61. Massaro, D.W. (in press). Categorical partition: A fuzzy logical model of categorization behavior. In S.N. Harnad (Ed.), Categorical Perception. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  62. Massaro, D.W., and Cohen, M.M. (1983a). Evaluation and integration of visual and auditory information in speech perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9, 753–771.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  63. Massaro, D.W., and Cohen, M.M. (1983b). Categorical or continuous speech perception: a new test. Speech Communication, 2, 15–35.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  64. Massaro, D.W., and Oden, G.C. (1980a). Speech perception: A framework for research and theory. In N.J. Lass (Ed.), Speech and Language: Advances in research and practice. Vol.3. New York: Academic. Pp. 129–165.

    Google Scholar 

  65. Massaro, D.W., and Oden, G.C. (1980b). Evaluation and integration of acoustic features in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 67, 996–1013.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  66. Mattingly, I.G. (1972). Reading, the linguistic process, and linguistic awareness. In J.F. Kavanagh and I.G. Mattingly (Eds.), Language by ear and eye: The relationships between speech and reading. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 133–148.

    Google Scholar 

  67. McGurk, H., and MacDonald, J. (1976). Hearing lips and seeing voices. Nature, 264, 746–748.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  68. Meltzoff, A.N., and Moore, M.K. (1985). Cognitive foundations and social functions of imitation and intermodal representation in infancy. In J. Mehler and R. Fox (Eds.), Neonate cognition: Beyond the blooming buzzing confusion. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlb Pp. 139–156.

    Google Scholar 

  69. Miller, G.A., and Nicely, P. (1955), An analysis of perceptual confusions among some English consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 27, 338–352.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  70. Morais, J., Cary, L, Alegria, J., and Bertelson, P. (1979). Does awareness of speech as a sequence of phones arise spontaneously? Cognition, 7, 323–331.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  71. Neisser, U. (1976). Cognition and reality: Principles and implications of cognitive psychology. San Francisco: Freeman.

    Google Scholar 

  72. Ohala, J.J. (1981). The listener as a source of sound change. In C.S. Marek, R.A. Hendrick, and M.F. Miller (Eds.), Papers from the parasessipn in language and behaviour. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. Pp. 178–203.

    Google Scholar 

  73. Ohala, J.J. (1983). The origin of sound patterns in vocal tract constraints. In P.F. MacNeilage (Ed.), The production of speech. New York: Springer-Verlag. Pp. 189–216.

    Google Scholar 

  74. Pisoni, D.B. (1973). Auditory and phonetic memory codes in the discrimination of consonants and vowels. Perception & Psychophysics, 13, 253–260.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  75. Pisoni, D.B., and Lazarus, J.H. (1974). Categorical and noncategorical modes of speech perception along the voicing continuum. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 55, 328–333.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  76. Remez, R.E., Rubin, P.E., Pisoni, D.B., and Carrell, T.D. (1981). Speech perception without traditional speech cues. Science, 212, 947–950.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  77. Repp, B.H. (1981). On levels of description in speech research. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 69, 1462–1464.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  78. Repp, B.H. (1982). Phonetic trading relations and context effects: New experimental evidence for a speech mode of perception. Psychological Bulletin, 92, 81–110.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  79. Repp, B.H. (1983). Trading relations among acoustic cues in speech perception are largely a result of phonetic categorization. Speech Communication, 2, 341–362.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  80. Repp, B.H. (1984). Categorical perception: Issues, methods, findings. In N.J. Lass (Ed.), Speech and language: Advances in Research and practice. Vol.10. New York: Academic. Pp. 243–335.

    Google Scholar 

  81. Repp, B.H., and Liberman, A.M. (in press). Phonetic category boundaries are flexible. In S.N. Harnad (Ed.), Categorical Perception. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  82. Repp, B.H., and Williams, D.R. (1985). Categorical trends in vowel imitation: Preliminary observations from a replication experiment. Speech Communication, 4, 105–120.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  83. Rosen, S., and Howell, P. (in press). Auditory, articulatory, and learning explanations of categorical perception in speech. In S.N. Harnard (Ed.), Categorical Perception. New York: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  84. Rosner, B.S. (1984). Perception of voice-onset-time continua: A signal detection analysis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 75, 1231–1242.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  85. Rubin, P., Baer, T., and Mermelstein, P. (1981). An articulatory synthesizer for perceptual research. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70, 321–328.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  86. Sachs, R.M., and Grant, K.W. (1976). Stimulus correlates in the perception of voice onset time (VOT): II. Discrimination of speech with high and low stimulus uncertainty. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 60, (Suppl. No. 1), S91. (Abstract)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  87. Samuel, A.G. (1977). The effect of discrimination training on speech perception: Noncategorical perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 22, 321–330.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  88. Samuel, A.G. (1982). Phonetic prototypes. Perception & Psychophysics, 31, 307–314.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  89. Schroeder, M.R., and Strube, H.W. (1979). Acoustic measurements of articulator motions. Phonetica, 36, 302–313.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  90. Shepard, R.N. (1980). Psychophysical complementarity. In M. Kubovy and J.R. Pomerantz (Eds.), Perceptual organization. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 279–341.

    Google Scholar 

  91. Shepard, R.N. (1984). Ecological constraints on internal representation: Resonant kinematics of perceiving, imagining, thinking, and dreaming. Psychological Review, 91, 417–447.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  92. Sidwell, A., and Summerfield, Q. (1985). The effect of enhanced spectral contrast on the internal representation of vowel-shaped noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 78, 495–506.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  93. Silman, S., Gelfand, S.A., and Silverman, K.E.A. (1984). Late-onset auditory deprivation: Effects of monaural versus binaural hearing aids. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 76, 1357–1362.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  94. Soli, S.D. (1983). The role of spectral cues in discrimination of voice onset time differences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 73, 2150–2165.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  95. Stevens, K.N., and Blumstein, S.E. (1978). Invariant cues for place of articulation in stop consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 64, 1358–1368.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  96. Stevens, K.N., and Blumstein, S.E. (1981). The search for invariant acoustic correlates of phonetic features. In P.D. Eimas and J.L. Miller (Eds.), Perspectives in the study of speech. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 1–38.

    Google Scholar 

  97. Studdert-Kennedy, M. (1982). On the dissociation of auditory and phonetic perception. In R. Carlson and B. Granström (Eds.), The representation of speech in the peripheral auditory system. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Pp. 9–26.

    Google Scholar 

  98. Studdert-Kennedy, M. (1985). Perceiving phonetic events. In W.H. Warren and R.E. Shaw (Eds.), Persistence and change: Proceedings of the first international conference on event perception. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  99. Studdert-Kennedy, M., Liberman, A.M., Harris, K.S., and Cooper, F.S. (1970). Motor theory of speech perception: A reply to Lanefs critical review. Psychological Review, 77, 234–249.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  100. Summerfield, Q. (1979). Use of visual information for phonetic perception. Phonetica, 36, 314–331.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  101. Summerfield, Q. (in press). Preliminaries to a comprehensive account of audio-visual speech perception. In B. Dodd and R. Campbell (Eds.), Hearing by eye. Hilldale, NJ: Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  102. Tallal, P., and Stark, R. (1981). Speech acoustic-cue discrimination abilities of normally developing and language-impaired children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 69, 568–574.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  103. Tatham, M.A.A. (1980). Phonology and phonetics as part of the language encoding/decoding system. In N.J. Lass (Ed.), Speech and language: Advances in research and practice. Vol.3. New York: Academic. Pp. 35–73.

    Google Scholar 

  104. Titchener, E.B. (1909). Lectures on the elementary psychology of the thought-process.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  105. Toulmin, S. (1972). Human understanding: The collective use and evolution of concepts. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  106. Tuller, B., and Fowler, C.A. (1980). Some articulatory correlates of perceptual isochrony. Perception & Psychophysics, 27, 277–283.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  107. Tyler, R.S., Summerfield, Q., Wood, E.J. and Fernandes, M.A. (1982). Psychoacoustic and phonetic temporal processing in normal and hearing-impaired listeners. Journal of the Accoustical Society of America, 72, 740–752.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  108. Vinegrad, M.D. (1972). A direct magnitude scaling method to investigate categorical versus continuous modes of speech perception. Language and Speech, 15, 114–121.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  109. Warren, R.M. (1981). Chairman’s comments. In T. Myers, J. Laver, and J. Anderson (Eds.), The cognitive representation of speech. Amsterdam: North Holland. Pp. 34–37.

    Google Scholar 

  110. Watson, C.S., Kewley-Port, D., and Foyle, D.C. (1985). Temporal acuity for speech and nonspeech sounds: The role of stimulus uncertainty. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 77, (Suppl. No. 1), S27. (Abstract)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  111. Welsh, L.W., Welsh, J.J., and Healy, M.P. (1983). Effect of sound deprivation on central hearing. Laryngoscope, 93, 1569–1575.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  112. Werker, J.F., and Tees, R.C. (1984). Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life. Infant Behavior and Development, 7, 49–63.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  113. Werker, J.F., Gilbert, J.H.V., Humphrey, K., and Tees, R.C. (1981). Developmental aspects of cross-language speech perception. Child Development, 52, 349–355.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  114. Wood, C.C. (1976). Discrimination, response bias, and phoneme categories in discrimination of voice onset time. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 60, 1381–1389.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  115. Yates, J. (1985). The content of awareness is a model of the world. Psychological Review 92, 249–284.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Haskins Laboratories, 270 Crown Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA

    Bruno H. Repp

Authors
  1. Bruno H. Repp
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Phonetics, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    M. E. H. Schouten

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1987 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Repp, B.H. (1987). The Role of Psychophysics in Understanding Speech Perception. In: Schouten, M.E.H. (eds) The Psychophysics of Speech Perception. NATO ASI Series, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3629-4_1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3629-4_1

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht

  • Print ISBN: 978-94-010-8123-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-94-009-3629-4

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation