The link between speech perception and production is phonological and abstract: Evidence from the shadowing task

This study reports a shadowing experiment, in which one has to repeat a speech stimulus as fast as possible. We tested claims about a direct link between perception and production based on speech gestures, and obtained two types of counterevidence. First, shadowing is not slowed down by a gestural m...

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Published in:Cognition 2008-10, Vol.109 (1), p.168-173
Main Authors: Mitterer, Holger, Ernestus, Mirjam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Auditory Discrimination
Auditory Perception
Auditory Stimuli
Biological and medical sciences
Cognitive Processes
Experiments
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Language
Language Acquisition
Linguistics
Male
Perception
Perceptual Masking
Phonetics
Phonology
Production and perception of spoken language
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Speech
Speech Perception
Speech production
Speech Production Measurement
Stimuli
Young Adult
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Summary:This study reports a shadowing experiment, in which one has to repeat a speech stimulus as fast as possible. We tested claims about a direct link between perception and production based on speech gestures, and obtained two types of counterevidence. First, shadowing is not slowed down by a gestural mismatch between stimulus and response. Second, phonetic detail is more likely to be imitated in a shadowing task if it is phonologically relevant. This is consistent with the idea that speech perception and speech production are only loosely coupled, on an abstract phonological level.
ISSN:0010-0277
1873-7838
DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.002