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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Information Theory
  • Linguistics
  • Speech Perception

Background:

  • Traditional models struggle with long-standing speech perception problems.
  • Existing frameworks face challenges in explaining rate normalization, articulation variance, and talker normalization.
  • A novel perspective is needed to address these complexities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an information theoretic framework for understanding speech perception.
  • To reframe existing problems in speech perception as dissolvable within this new framework.
  • To explore the application of information theory to perception broadly.

Main Methods:

  • Developing an information theoretic framework for speech perception.
  • Reframing key problems such as object of perception, rate normalization, articulation variance, and talker normalization.
  • Applying discriminative models based on information theory.

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework offers a new lens to dissolve, rather than solve, persistent speech perception problems.
  • Speech perception is reconceptualized as a process of developing sensitivity to unpredictable information, shaped by experience.
  • The framework provides a productive approach for analyzing speech perception and perception in general.

Conclusions:

  • An information theoretic approach offers a powerful method for understanding speech perception.
  • This framework has the potential to resolve long-standing issues in the field.
  • The principles can be extended to broader questions of perception.