Phonetics in the Brain

Pelle Söderström

doi:10.1017/9781009161114

Phonetics in the Brain

Pelle Söderström

General Linguistics

Western Sydney University

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Spoken language is a rapidly unfolding signal: a complex code that the listener must crack to understand what is being said. From the structures of the inner ear through to higher-order areas of the brain, a hierarchy of interlinked processes transforms the acoustic signal to a linguistic message within fractions of a second.

This Element outlines how speech is perceived and explores what the auditory system needs to achieve to make this possible. It traces a path through the system and discusses the mechanisms that enable us to perceive speech as a coherent sequence of words. This is combined with a brief history of research into language and the brain beginning in the nineteenth century, as well as an overview of the state-of-the-art neuroimaging and analysis techniques that are used to investigate phonetics in the brain today.

Original language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Number of pages	78
ISBN (Electronic)	9781009161114
ISBN (Print)	978-1-009-16112-1 , 978-1-009-50744-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009161114
Publication status	Published - 2024 Mar 2

Publication series

Name	Elements in Phonetics
Publisher	Cambridge
ISSN (Print)	2634-1670
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-1689

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Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics

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phonetics
neuroscience
neurolinguistics
psycholinguistics
history
speech perception
spoken-word recognition
neuroimaging
functional magnetic brain imaging (fMRI)
electroencephalography (EEG)

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Neurophysiological correlates of predictive mechanisms in word recognition
Söderström, P. (Researcher)
Swedish Research Council
2020/01/01 → 2024/01/01
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