The study of speech processes : addressing the writing bias in language science

The study of speech processes : addressing the writing bias in language science /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boucher, Victor J., 1959- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Linguistics.
Written communication.
Speech.
Phonetics.
Psycholinguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Questions of Ontology: Writing and the Speech-Language Divide
  • 1. How We Are Introduced to the Study of Spoken Language
  • 1.1. Language as an "Autonomous" System, or the Effects of Scriptism
  • 1.2. Defining "Speech"
  • 1.3. Was the Speech-Language Division Ever Physiologically Grounded?
  • 1.3.1. Saussure's Argument of a Separate Language Faculty in Broca's Area
  • 1.3.2. Arguments of the Arbitrariness of Signs and Abstract Phonology
  • 1.3.3. On the Primacy of Linguistic Criteria: The Historical Disconnect from Instrumental Observations
  • 1.3.4. Explaining Systems of Distinctive Features: Lindblom's Demonstration (1986)
  • 2. Modality-Independence Argument and Storylines of the Origin of Symbolic Language
  • 2.1. Cognitive Skills as Insufficient Factors in the Rise of Symbolic Communication
  • 2.2. Case against Modality-Independent Accounts of Symbolic Language
  • 2.3. Modality-Dependent Accounts of the Rise of Symbolic Language
  • 2.3.1. Mimesis, Procedural Learning, and the Case of Sign Languages
  • 2.3.2. "Sound Symbolism": Questions of the Efficiency of Iconic Signs
  • 2.3.3. Articulated Vocalization and the Rise of Symbolic Signs: A Laboratory Demonstration
  • 2.4. Phylogeny and Ontogeny of an Amodal Symbol Function as a Pseudo-Puzzle
  • 3. Recent History of Attempts to Ground Orthographic Concepts of Language Theory
  • 3.1. From Orthographic Representations to "Substantive Universals"
  • 3.2. Shoehorning Orthographic Concepts: Issues in Grounding the LAD
  • 3.2.1. Biases and Limitations of Analyzing Language Development through Writing
  • 3.2.2. Search for Marks of Words and Phrases, versus "Chunks"
  • 3.3. Neuroscience Falls upon Nonexistent Substantive Universals: Why This Invalidation Is Different
  • 3.4. Abandoning the Competence-Performance Divide
  • Postscript - On the Use of the IPA and Terms of Latin Grammar in the Present Work
  • pt. II Questions of Epistemology: The Role of Instrumental Observations
  • 4. Recognizing the Bias
  • 4.1. On the Tradition of Overlooking Instrumental Observations: The Case of the Phoneme
  • 4.1.1. From Instrumental Records of Co-articulation to Transcribed Spoonerisms
  • 4.1.2. On the Origin of Alphabet Signs: The Hypothesis of a Preliterate Awareness of Phonemes
  • 4.1.3. Testing Phoneme Awareness: Issues in Defining Reference Units
  • 4.2. Looking-Glass Effect: Viewing Phoneme Awareness by Reference to IPA Transcripts
  • 4.2.1. "Phonological" Evidence of Phonemes Versus Motor Processes
  • 4.2.2. On Arguments of the "Logical Necessity" of Phonemes and the Success of Alphabet Systems
  • 4.2.3. Effects of Writing on Speakers' Awareness of Words, Phrases, Sentences
  • 5. (Re-)defining the Writing Bias, and the Essential Role of Instrumental Invalidation
  • 5.1. On the Persistence of Scriptism in the Study of Spoken Language
  • 5.2. Need to Address Complaints of Cultural Centrism and Ethical Concerns
  • pt. III Structure of Speech Acts
  • 6. Utterances as Communicative Acts
  • 6.1. Describing Speech Acts and Their Meaning
  • 6.2. Parity Condition, Motor-Sensory Coupling, and the Issue of Utterance Structure
  • 6.3. Coding of Speech Acoustics in the Auditory Brain Stem and Effects of Motor-Sensory Coupling
  • 6.4. Multimodal Sensory Integration: Introducing Neural Entrainment to Speech Structure
  • 6.4.1. Specificity of Neural Entrainment in the Speech Modality
  • 6.4.2. Neural Entrainment to Structures of Motor Speech: Linking to Spiking Activity
  • 6.4.3. On the Role of Subcortical Processes: Multisensory-to-Motor Integration and Chunking
  • 6.5. Relating to Utterance Structure, or What the Brain Does Not Intrinsically Construct
  • 7. Relating to Basic Units: Syllable-Like Cycles
  • 7.1. Speech Production: On the Brain-Utterance Interface That Never Was
  • 7.2. Basic Sequencing Units in Theories of Speech-Motor Control: Some Examples
  • 7.2.1. Equilibrium-Point (EP) Hypothesis
  • 7.2.2. Task Dynamics (TD) Model
  • 7.2.3. Directions in Auditory Space Into Velocities of Articulators: The DIVA Model
  • 7.3. Critical Evidence of Basic Sequencing Units and What Shapes Them
  • 7.3.1. Intrinsic Muscle-Tissue Elasticity and Its Effect on Speech Motions
  • 7.3.2. Other Intrinsic Effects of Muscle Tissues on Motion Sequencing within Syllable Cycles
  • 7.3.3. Just How Many Units Are There in CVand VC, and Are These Represented in Memory?
  • 7.3.4. Syllable Cycles within Chunks and Graded Motion Control without Phonemes
  • 8. Relating Neural Oscillations to Syllable Cycles and Chunks
  • 8.1. Entrainment of Low-Frequency Oscillations and Speech Processing
  • 8.1.1. On the Role of Theta-and Delta-Size Processing Windows
  • 8.1.2. Reviewing Claims of a Non-sensory Entrainment of Delta to Content Units
  • 8.2. Delta-Size Windows and the Sensory Chunking of Speech
  • 8.2.1. Chunks and Their Signature Marks
  • 8.2.2. Neural Entrainment in Speech Processing
  • 9. Breath Units of Speech and Their Structural Effects
  • 9.1. Utterances as Breath Units versus Sentences in Speaker-Listener Interaction
  • 9.2. On Interpreting Measures of "Mean Length of Utterance" (MLU)
  • 9.2.1. Utterance Complexity, Lexical Diversity, and MLU: Linking to Developing Motor Structures
  • 9.2.2. Chunks in Breath Units of Speech and the Development of Vocabulary
  • 9.2.3. On Explaining Developmental Milestones
  • 9.3. Structure of Spoken Language: An Interim Summary with a View on Addressing the Issue of Scriptism
  • pt. IV Processing of Speech Meaning
  • 10. Neural Coding of Semantics
  • 10.1. Units of Writing, Structures of Utterances, and the Semantics of Speech
  • 10.2. Lexico-Semantic Approach: Context Information as "Nonessential"
  • 10.2.1. Lexico-Semantics and Traditional Models of Language Processing
  • 10.2.2. Embodied versus Disembodied Semantics
  • 10.3. How Semantic Representations of Verbal Expressions Develop: On "Modes of Acquisition"
  • 10.4. Partitioning of Semantic Memory and Its Formatting in Spoken Languages
  • 10.4.1. Words Are Not Biologically Grounded Units: Why Sensory Chunking Is Necessary
  • 10.4.2. On Representations of Verbalized Forms in Memory: Activating Episodes of Speech Acts
  • 10.5. Nature of Semantic Representations: On the Neural Coding of Context Information in Action Blocks of Speech
  • 11. Processes of Utterance Interpretation: For a Neuropragmatics
  • 11.1. Issue of the Selective Activation of Semantic Representations in Speech Contexts
  • 11.1.1. Context-Based Semantics: Clinical Observations Using Unconventional Test Batteries
  • 11.2. On Context-Based Speech Comprehension: Selective Activation of Semantic Representations On-Line
  • 11.2.1. Thalamocortical Interactions and the Integrating Role of the Motor Thalamus
  • 11.2.2. Semantics of Utterances: The Analogy of Action Selection in Spatial Navigation
  • 11.2.3. Subcortical Mechanisms of Buffering and Context-Based Semantic Processing.

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