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Class 28: Speakers hearers Asst 9 (cat. perc.) – (due today) final project – due Thursday 12/12 final exam Monday, Dec. 16 @ 1:30p Send requests for review by Wed The perceptual system   The perceptual system seems to be organized to facilitate perception.  Listeners use systematic variation  But they perceive categories Theories of speech perception   must account for facts about the acoustic speech signal, e.g.:  inter- and intra-speaker variability in signals that convey equivalent linguistic information  continuous acoustic speech signal, though it is perceived as and represents a series of discrete units  speech cues are transmitted very quickly (20 to 25 sounds per second) and simultaneously Theories of speech perception   must also account for various perceptual phenomena, e.g.:  categorical perception  phoneme restoration  episodic memory  plus, various word recognition effects (e.g., frequency effects, priming, etc.) Types of theories   Auditory – listeners   Motor – listeners identify acoustic extract information patterns by matching about articulations from to stored acoustic the acoustic signal representations   Top-down – higher level   Bottom-up – from information physical signal supplements the signal   Active – cognition is   Passive – relies on involved passive response   Prototype rep’ns (thresholds)   Exemplar rep’ns Auditor