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Speech/Word Recognition

Speech/word recognition

Core Areas

  • Automatic processing
  • Cohort theory
  • Interactive activation model
  • Motor theory
  • Prosodic cues
  • Response bias effect
  • Semantic priming effects
  • Sensitivity effect
  • TRACE model

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this chapter you should be able to:

  • define the key terms;
  • provide an introductory outline to the processes involved in word recognition including phonemic restoration, lip reading, prosodic cues, automatic processing, the role of context and letter identification;
  • understand the role of bottom-up and top-down processes in relation to explanation of recognition including motor theory, cohort theory, the TRACE model and the interactive activation model; and
  • consider the strengths and weaknesses of each of these theories in explaining speech/word recognition.

Running Themes

  • Bottom-up processing
  • Ecological validity
  • Experimental cognitive psychology
  • Schema
  • Semantics
  • Top-down processing

Introduction

Recognising words may be due to data-driven processes resulting from things we hear (bottom-up processing) or from the concepts taken from linguistic ...

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