34.3450, Books: The Study of Speech Processes: Boucher (2023)

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Date: 10-Nov-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Study of Speech Processes: Boucher (2023)


Title: The Study of Speech Processes
Subtitle: Addressing the Writing Bias in Language Science
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/langua
ges-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/study-speech-pr
ocesses-addressing-writing-bias-language-science?format=PB

author: Victor J. Boucher
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316636343 Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316636343 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316636343 Price: Europe EURO 26.83
Abstract:

There has been a longstanding bias in the study of spoken language
towards using writing to analyse speech. This approach is problematic
in that it assumes language to be derived from an autonomous mental
capacity to assemble words into sentences, while failing to
acknowledge culture-specific ideas linked to writing. Words and
sentences are writing constructs that hardly capture the sound-making
actions involved in spoken language. This book brings to light
research that has long revealed structures present in all languages
but which do not match the writing-induced concepts of traditional
linguistic analysis. It demonstrates that language processes are not
physiologically autonomous, and that speech structures are structures
of spoken language. It then illustrates how speech acts can be studied
using instrumental records, and how multisensory experiences in
semantic memory couple to these acts, offering a biologically-grounded
understanding of how spoken language conveys meaning and why it
develops only in humans.

Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)

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