The Subject of Speech Perception: An Analysis of the Philosophical Foundations of the Information-Processing Model

Fraser, Helen

This book analyses and challenges the metatheoretical framework which supports information-processing models of human speech perception. The first part consists of a review of speech perception research in the information-processing paradigm; an overview of the cognitivist philosophy from which this approach takes its justification; and an introduction to some relevant themes of phenomenological philosophy. The second half uses the phenomenological insights discussed to demonstrate some inadequacies of cognitivism; to show how these inadequacies underlie problems with the information-processing theory; and suggests an alternative framework with significant change of focus.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1992-07-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333551714

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12368-1

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 250