The Development of speech perception : the transition from speech sounds to spoken words / edited by Judith C. Goodman and Howard C. Nusbaum. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994. - xii, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Papers presented at the Workshop on Recognizing Spoken Language which was held June 1989, University of Chicago. "A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: developing theories of speech perception - constraints from developmental data, Judith C. Goodman et al. Part 1 Innate sensory mechanisms and constraints on learning: observations on speech perception, its development, and the search for a mechanism, Joanne L. Miller and Peter D. Eimas; the importance of childhood to language acquisition - evidence from American sign language, Rachel I. Mayberry. Part 2 Perceptual learning of phonological systems: cross-language speech perception - developmental change does not involve loss, Janet F. Werker; perceptual learning of non-native speech contrasts - implications for theories of speech perception, David B. Pisoni et al; the emergence of native-language phonological influences in infants - a perceptual assimilation model, Catherine T. Best. Part 3 Interactions of linguistic levels - influences on perceptual development: infant speech perception and the development of the mental lexicon, Peter W. Jusczyk; sentential processes in early child language - evidence from the perception and production of function morphemes, LouAnn Gerken; learning to hear speech as spoken language, Howard C. Nusbaum and Judith C. Goodman.

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Language acquisition--Congresses.
Speech perception--Congresses.
Perceptual learning--Congresses.

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