speech perception

collocation in English

meaningsofspeechandperception

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speech
noun
uk
/spiːtʃ/
us
/spiːtʃ/
the ability to talk, the activity of talking, or a piece of ...
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perception
noun
uk
/pəˈsep.ʃən/
us
/pɚ-/
a belief or opinion, often held by many people and based on how ...
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(Definition ofspeechandperceptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Some research has also demonstrated variability in native speakers'speechperception.
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Becoming a native listener : a developmental perspective on humanspeechperception.
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Visual information is, of course, not necessary forspeechperception.
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However, research in phonetics, phonology, and spoken word recognition suggests that features may be the more critical units inspeechperceptionand word recognition.
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In part, then, language delays may be due to problems with the early development ofspeechperceptionand phonological representations.
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However, the nature of the links between hearing, visualspeechperception, and speech production abilities is far from clear.
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Ideally, constraints fromspeechperceptionwould receive an equal treatment.
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Fine-grained discrimination deficits in language learning impaired children are specific neither to the auditory modality nor tospeechperception.
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Our hypothesis is that difficulties inspeechperceptionare often present among the offspring of dyslexic parents because of inherited familial factors.
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A reviewer points out that it is not clear thatspeechperceptioninvolves the extraction of formant frequencies, which would make formant-based constraints questionable.
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A model of auditory hallucinations considered as autonomous outputs ofspeechperceptionneurocircuitry does not require postulation of specific breakdown of theory of mind capacities.
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Thus, it is likely that cross-language interactions are governed by universal constraints on organization ofspeechperception/production behavior and human learning mechanisms.
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This serves as a bridge to the final three chapters of this section, related tospeechperception.
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However, even findings regarding the basic processes ofspeechperceptionargue against the assumption of automatic processing.
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The focus of the current study is on the effects of early bilingualism on adults'speechperceptionin adverse listening environments (both noisy and reverberant).
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On this assumption, the phonology must stagger the oral and glottal gestures of a segment so that each may be recovered inspeechperception.
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The development ofspeechperception: the transition from speech sounds to spoken words.
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Implications are discussed in relation to audiovisualspeechperceptionand orthographic processing and practical considerations such as second language instruction.
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Auditory-visualspeechperceptionexamined by brain imaging and reaction time.
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