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Content: This module considers theories of perception and production within a unified framework. It outlines two types of theory that link perception and production (feedback theory of speech production and motor theory of speech perception) and separate theories for speech perception and production (called autonomous accounts).听 As well as work on theoretical issues, practical applications. This includes听 how these ideas apply to speech pathology including stuttered, aphasic and Down syndrome speech, how a cochlear implant works, accent, aging, brain plasticity and motor learning (mainly work on Mandarin tones). These practical aspects are ones that past students have found particularly interesting.
Teaching delivery: This module is taught in 15 hours of in-person lectures spread over 10 teaching weeks (usually in the format of 5 2-hour sessions in one half of term and 5 1-hour lectures in the other half of term). Face-to-face seminar meetings are sometimes arranged with students during the module that go into more depth on topics on which they express interest (optional).
Indicative Topics: Indicative lecture topics 鈥� based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes: Framework for theories of perception & production, Linked/ theories: Levelt鈥檚 feedback monitoring theory, Acoustic-phonetic variability, Linked/theories: Altered auditory feedback, classic feedback account and disruptive rhythm hypothesis. Speech after cochlear implantation and sensory-motor perturbations, Linked theories: The DIVA model & motor learning, Autonomous production and common central mechanism theories, quantal theory, dispersion theory, & Shiller鈥檚 speech motor timing work, Linked theories: Motor theory, categorical perception, direct realism, Autonomous perception theories: Feature detection theories, Stevens鈥� natural sensitivities theory, Applications of theories & principles learned, Covert repair hypothesis & EXPLAN, effects of altered auditory feedback in speech disorders, Other speech disorders & their impact on speech production & perception, Impact of hearing loss on speech control & partial restoration of hearing by a cochlear implant, Kleim鈥檚 framework for neuroplasticity & application to stuttering & application to hearing loss, Language diversity I: Production & perception of tones and Language diversity II: Perception & production of accented speech
Module Aims: The aim is for students to understand the processes of speech production and perception as they operate normally and pathologically.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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