The Subject of Speech Perception
ISBN: 9781349123681
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection;

This book analyses and challenges the metatheoretical framework which supports information-processing models of human speech perception. The first part consists of a review of speech perception research in the information-processing paradigm; an overview of the cognitivist philosophy from which this approach takes its justification; and an introduction to some relevant themes of phenomenological philosophy. The second half uses the phenomenological insights discussed to demonstrate some inadequacies of cognitivism; to show how these inadequacies underlie problems with the information-processing theory; and suggests an alternative framework with significant change of focus.


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