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Neurocomputational Properties of Speech Sound Perception and Production

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Abstract

Speakers acquire, comprehend, and produce speech effortlessly, notwithstanding its complexity, variability, and dynamicity. This is possible thanks to sophisticated neuronal connections evolved to jointly control auditory and motor areas, together with specialized memory processes. Recent interdisciplinary research has begun to reveal the neurocomputational properties of speech sounds perception and production. Discussing neurophysiological evidence coming from different methodologies and research approaches, we will try to interconnect well-established linguistic primitives with neurophysiological ones assumed to be at the core of the computation and representation of speech sounds. In this way, we will explore how auditory and motor areas control bottom-up and top-down processes to categorize and produce speech sounds. Event-related potentials, event-related magnetic fields, oscillatory rhythms, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence will show us if distinctive features or articulatory gestures are the better candidate to epistemologically link linguistic models with neural models of speech processing. Finally, we will delineate a preliminary theoretic proposal that integrates the linguistic and the neurobiological perspectives.

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    For what concerns the discussion about the traditional notions of “phonetics” and “phonology,” cf. [12, 13].

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