Speech Perception

Entrance requirements

Course description

The seminar is concerned with the perception of spoken language and with theories and models of speech perception. We will read, present, and critically discuss selected research papers. Participants should be prepared to do extensive reading and to give a presentation on one of the topics. After an introduction and a map of the field by the lecturer, research papers pertaining to the individual topics will be presented by the students. Presentations should not exceed 45 minutes and serve primarily as a basis for discussion.

Course credits

Requirements

Reading: For each class, you are required to read one or two papers (see Schedule). For each paper, please send me one question that you want to be answered or discussed in class (on the day preceding the class, before midnight).

Presentation: An oral presentation of 30-45 minutes, typically based on a core paper and maybe some complementary reading. Please contact me (1) when you have been assigned a topic/paper and want to start working on it; (2) when you have a pre-final draft version of the presentation. After your presentation I will provide feedback to you. The final version of your slides will be posted on the course homepage.

Term Paper: MSc students opting for the 7 CP version have to write a term paper (approx. 15 pages, deadlines see below). The topic of the paper need not be identical or overlap with the topic of your oral presentation.

Deadlines

Contact:
  Prof. Dr. Bernd Möbius
  Email
  C7.2/4.10
  0681/302-4500

Schedule (tentative, to be discussed)

Literature

• David B. Pisoni, Robert E. Remez (2005). The Handbook of Speech Perception. Blackwell. [pdf]
• John Clark, Colin Yallop, Janet Fletcher (2007): An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology, 3rd ed. Blackwell.

@Book{Pisoni/Remez:2005,
  title = 	 {The Handbook of Speech Perception},
  editor =	 {Pisoni, David~B. and Remez, Robert~E.},
  publisher = 	 {Blackwell},
  year = 	 2005,
  address =	 {Oxford, UK}
}

@InCollection{Cutler/Clifton:2000,
  author = 	 {Cutler, Anne and Clifton, Charles},
  title = 	 {Comprehending spoken language: a blueprint of the listener},
  booktitle =    {The Neurocognition of Language},
  publisher =    {Oxford University Press},
  year =         2000,
  editor =       {Brown, Colin M. and Hagoort, Peter},
  address =      {Oxford, UK},
  pages =	 {123--166}
}

@Article{Diehl/etal:2004,
  author = 	 {Diehl, Randy~L. and Lotto, Andrew~J. and Holt, Lori~L.},
  title = 	 {Speech perception},
  journal = 	 {Annual Review of Psychology},
  year = 	 2004,
  volume =	 55,
  pages =	 {149--179}
}

@Article{Diehl/Kluender:1989,
  author = 	 {Diehl, Randy~L. and Kluender, Keith~R..},
  title = 	 {On the objects of speech perception},
  journal = 	 {Ecological Psychology},
  year = 	 1989,
  volume =	 1,
  pages =	 {121--144}
}

@InCollection{Remez:2005,
  author = 	 {Remez, Robert~E.},
  title = 	 {Perceptual organization of speech},
  booktitle = 	 {The Handbook of Speech Perception},
  pages =	 {28--50},
  publisher =	 {Blackwell},
  year =	 2005,
  editor =	 {Pisoni, David~B. and Remez, Robert~E.},
  address =	 {Oxford, UK}
}
}

@InCollection{Liberman:1996b,
  author = 	 {Liberman, Alvin M.},
  title = 	 {The {Motor Theory} of speech perception revised},
  booktitle = 	 {Speech: A Special Code},
  author = 	 {Liberman, Alvin M.},
  publisher = 	 {MIT Press},
  year = 	 1996,
  address =	 {Cambridge, MA; London},
  pages =	 {237--265},
  note =	 {Appeared originally in (1985)}
}

@Article{Fowler:1986,
  author = 	 {Fowler, Carol~A.},
  title = 	 {An event approach to the study of speech perception
		  from a direct-realist perspective},
  journal = 	 {Journal of Phonetics},
  year = 	 1986,
  volume =	 14,
  pages =	 {3--28}
}

@InCollection{Repp:1984,
  author = 	 {Repp, Bruno},
  title = 	 {Categorical perception: Issues, methods, and findings},
  booktitle = 	 {Speech and Language: Advances in Basic Research and Practice},
  publisher =	 {Academic Press},
  year =	 1984,
  editor =	 {Lass, Norman~J.},
  volume =	 10,
  address =	 {New York},
  pages =	 {243--335}
}

@Article{Kuhl:1991,
  author =       {Kuhl, Patricia~K.},
  title =        {Human adults and human infants show a `perceptual
                  magnet effect' for the prototypes of speech
                  categories, monkeys do not},
  journal =      {Perception and Psychophysics},
  year =         1991,
  volume =       50,
  pages =        {93--107}
}

@Article{Iverson/Kuhl:2000,
  author = 	 {Iverson, Paul and Kuhl, Patricia K.},
  title = 	 {Perceptual magnet and phoneme boundary effects in
		  speech perception: Do they arise from a common mechanism?},
  journal = 	 {Perception and Psychophysics},
  year = 	 2000,
  volume =	 62,
  number =	 4,
  pages =	 {874--886}
}

@InCollection{Stevens:2005,
  author = 	 {Stevens, Kenneth~N.},
  title = 	 {Features in speech perception and lexical access},
  booktitle = 	 {The Handbook of Speech Perception},
  pages =	 {125--155},
  publisher =	 {Blackwell},
  year =	 2005,
  editor =	 {Pisoni, David~B. and Remez, Robert~E.},
  address =	 {Oxford, UK}
}

@InCollection{Fowler/Galantucci:2005,
  author = 	 {Fowler, Carol~A. and Galantucci, Bruno},
  title = 	 {The relation of speech perception and speech production},
  booktitle = 	 {The Handbook of Speech Perception},
  pages =	 {633--652},
  publisher =	 {Blackwell},
  year =	 2005,
  editor =	 {Pisoni, David~B. and Remez, Robert~E.},
  address =	 {Oxford, UK}
}

@InCollection{Pierrehumbert:2001,
  author = 	 {Pierrehumbert, Janet},
  title = 	 {Exemplar dynamics: Word frequency, lenition and contrast},
  booktitle = 	 {Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure},
  editor = 	 {Bybee, Joan and Hopper, Paul},
  publisher = 	 {Benjamins},
  year = 	 2001,
  address =	 {Amsterdam},
  pages =	 {137--157}
}

@InCollection{Johnson:2005,
  author = 	 {Johnson, Keith},
  title = 	 {Speaker normalization in speech perception},
  booktitle = 	 {The Handbook of Speech Perception},
  pages =	 {363--389},
  publisher =	 {Blackwell},
  year =	 2005,
  editor =	 {Pisoni, David~B. and Remez, Robert~E.},
  address =	 {Oxford, UK}
}

@Article{Benson/etal:2001,
  author = 	 {Benson, Randall~R. and Whalen, Doug~H. and
		  Richardson, Matthew and Swainson, Brook and Clark,
		  Vincent~P. and Lai, Song and Liberman, Alvin~M.},
  title = 	 {Parametrically dissociating speech and nonspeech
		  perception in the brain using {fMRI}},
  journal = 	 {Brain and Language},
  year = 	 2001,
  volume =	 78,
  number =	 3,
  pages =	 {364--396}
}

@InCollection{Luce/McLennan:2005,
  author = 	 {Luce, Paul~A. and McLennan, Conor~T.},
  title = 	 {Spoken word recognition: The challenge of variation},
  booktitle = 	 {The Handbook of Speech Perception},
  pages =	 {592--609},
  publisher =	 {Blackwell},
  year =	 2005,
  editor =	 {Pisoni, David~B. and Remez, Robert~E.},
  address =	 {Oxford, UK}
}

@InCollection{Auer/Luce:2005,
  author = 	 {{Auer, Jr.}, Edward~T. and Luce, Paul~A.},
  title = 	 {Probabilistic phonotactics in spoken word recognition},
  booktitle = 	 {The Handbook of Speech Perception},
  pages =	 {610--630},
  publisher =	 {Blackwell},
  year =	 2005,
  editor =	 {Pisoni, David~B. and Remez, Robert~E.},
  address =	 {Oxford, UK}
}

@InCollection{Bernstein:2005,
  author = 	 {Bernstein, Lynne~E.},
  title = 	 {Phonetic processing by the speech perceiving brain},
  booktitle = 	 {The Handbook of Speech Perception},
  pages =	 {79--98},
  publisher =	 {Blackwell},
  year =	 2005,
  editor =	 {Pisoni, David~B. and Remez, Robert~E.},
  address =	 {Oxford, UK}
}