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Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5798-8
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320 pages
April 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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1 Human Language as a Scientific Phenomenon.

The specialness of language.

The study of language as a cognitive science.

2 Speaking, Sound, and Hearing.

Speaking and transcribing.

The sound of speech.

Hearing.

3 Phonetic Diversity in the World's Languages and Diversity Among Dialects of English.

The sounds of the world's languages.

English in the United States and around the world.

4 Introduction to Experimental Design.

5 Speech Perception.

The lack of invariance and the use of cues in speech perception.

Ways in which speech perception might be special.

Discovering words.

6 Word Recognition.

7 Phonological Units and Phonological Patterning.

8 Word Form and Function.

9 Sign Languages.

10 Language and the Brain.

11 Language, Speech, and Hearing Disorders.

12 Reading and Dyslexia.

Appendix: IPA Chart.

Index.

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