"This special volume celebrates Sheila Blumstein's many and sustained contributions to our understanding of language, and in particular, phonological processing"--Introduction. Festschrift, incorporating proceedings from a workshop at the the Lords of the Manor Hotel in Upper Slaughter, England, funded by the European Research Council. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
In this book, some of today?s leading neurolinguists and psycholinguists provide insight into the nature of phonological processing using behavioural measures, computational modeling, EEG and fMRI. The essays cover a range of topics including categorization, acoustic variability and invariance, underspecification, talker-specificity and machine learning, focusing on the acoustics, perception, acquisition and neural representation of speech.
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