Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Phonetic categories and phonological features: Evidence from the cognitive neuroscience of language 4
5. On invariance: Acoustic input meets listener expectations 21
6. The invariance problem in the acquisition of non-native phonetic contrasts: From instances to categories 52
7. Symmetry or asymmetry: Evidence for underspecification in the mental lexicon 85
8. Talker-specificity effects in spoken language processing: Now you see them, now you don’t 107
9. Processing acoustic variability in lexical tone perception 129
10. Flexible and adaptive processes in speech perception 155
11. Foreign accent syndrome: Phonology or phonetics? 187
12. How category learning occurs in adults and children 193
13. Automatic speech recognition: What phonology can offer 211
14. Fluid semantics: Semantic knowledge is experience-based and dynamic 236
15. Subject index 256