Finding phonological features in perception

摘要: This thesis investigated whether phonological features have perceptual bases. The search for in perception was approached from several angles: that of an adult listener who has a fully acquired language system place, linguist aims to uncover feature structures languages, and learner acquires the representations her native speech sounds. We employed vowel discrimination identification experiments determine are categories through which listeners process speech. Subsequently, we assessed listeners’ pre-attentive sensitivity particular phonetic dimension order find out they encode into feature. Finally, carried simulations perception-driven learning reveal humans learn represent sounds their terms features. Our results indicate map auditory properties onto categories, mappings between sound can be redefined when change occurs. Interestingly, findings suggest is used contrastively one’s not necessarily encoded feature, but associated with specific phoneme instead. confirmed above by showing virtual infants both phonemes. demonstrated emergent, i.e. created on basis morphophonological input learners exposed to.