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When to simulate and when to associate? Accounting for inter-talker variability in the speech signal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2013

Alison M. Trude
Alison M. Trude*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820. [email protected]
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Abstract

Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) theory could be modified to describe how listeners rapidly incorporate context to generate predictions about speech despite inter-talker variability. However, in order to do so, the content of “impoverished” predicted percepts must be expanded to include phonetic information. Further, the way listeners identify and represent inter-talker differences and subsequently determine which prediction method to use would require further specification.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , August 2013 , pp. 375 - 376
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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