Ch 16

Speech perception
1. Often viewed as a branch of experimental phonetics or of psycholinguistics
2. Should be incorporated in phonology
a. The research reported in this chapter:
Applying explicit statistical pattern-recognition concepts to the perception of phonological categories
b. The results
Illustrates how a careful examination of existing empirical data together with an analytic examination of alternate statistical models of production patterns can give insight into perceptual processes
The relationship between f0 vowel quality
1. Two theoretical positions on the role of f0 in the specification of vowel quality
a. Incorporate f0 directly to the initial feature representations of vowels
b. Separation of the source (f0) and filter (formants, spectrum envelope) properties in perception
2. The position adopted by the authors
a. Statistical relations between and formant patterns are at play in perceptual results