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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2-4
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-10-18
pubmed:abstractText
Purported units of speech, e.g. phonemes or features, are essentially categories. The assignment of phonemic (or phonetic) identity is a process of categorization: potentially discriminable speech sounds are treated in an equivalent manner. Unfortunately the extensive literature on human categorization has typically focused on simple visual categories that are defined by the presence or absence of discrete features. Speech categories are much more complex. They are often defined by continuous values across a variety of imperfectly valid features. In this paper, several kinds of categories are distinguished and studies using human subjects, animal subjects and computational models are presented that endeavor to describe the structure and development of the sort of complex categories underlying speech perception.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0031-8388
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 S. Karger AG, Basel
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
57
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
189-96
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Language acquisition as complex category formation.
pubmed:affiliation
Loyola University Chicago, IL 60626, USA. alotto@luc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article