'Categorical perception' presentation slideshows

Presenter: Sayaka Abe

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Quantifying Sensitivity

Quantifying Sensitivity. Quantifying Sensitivity. Response bias Two measures of discrimination Accuracy : how often is the judge correct? Sensitivity : how well does the judge distinguish the categories? Quantifying sensitivity Hits Misses False Alarms Correct Rejections

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Phonetic perspectives on modelling information in the speech signal

Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery. Phonetic perspectives on modelling information in the speech signal. Sarah Hawkins University of Cambridge sh110@cam.ac.uk ISCA ITRW Workshop, Aalborg, 4-6 June 2008. Contents*.

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Phonetic perspectives on modelling information in the speech signal

Speech Analysis and Processing for Knowledge Discovery. Phonetic perspectives on modelling information in the speech signal. Sarah Hawkins University of Cambridge sh110@cam.ac.uk ISCA ITRW Workshop, Aalborg, 4-6 June 2008. Contents*.

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Acoustic Continua and Phonetic Categories

Acoustic Continua and Phonetic Categories. Frequency - Tones. Frequency - Tones. Frequency - Tones. Frequency - Tones. Frequency - Complex Sounds. Frequency - Complex Sounds. Frequency - Vowels. Vowels combine acoustic energy at a number of different frequencies

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Language and Thought

Language and Thought. Lecture 2 Whorf Categorical Perception Statistics. Introduction to Linguistic Relativity. Benjamin Whorf. Yale: Research Fellowships Lecturer. First Paper Nahuatl Aztec. Fire Prevention Engineer. 1941 Died at 44. Born Winthrop, MA. 1897. 1907. 1917. 1927.

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Psych 156A/ Ling 150: Acquisition of Language II

Psych 156A/ Ling 150: Acquisition of Language II. Lecture 3 Sounds. Announcements. Be working on HW1 (due 4/13/10) Review questions available for sounds & sounds of words IPA chart available Read Stager & Werker (1997) for next time. Learning Sounds. Sound Waves.

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Psych 156A/ Ling 150: Acquisition of Language II

Psych 156A/ Ling 150: Acquisition of Language II. Lecture 3 Sounds. Announcements. Be working on HW1 (due 4/19/ 12) Review questions available for sounds & sounds of words IPA sound conversion chart available. Learning Sounds. Sound Waves.

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Acoustics

Acoustics. Acoustics = physics of sound Sound = moving air particles Frequency of motion is measured in Hz (= hertz = cycles/sec ) Complex sounds = consist of many different frequencies simultaneously slowest frequency = fundamental frequency ( F0 ) determines pitch

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Chapter 13: Speech Perception

Chapter 13: Speech Perception. Overview of Questions. Can computers perceive speech as well as humans? Why does an unfamiliar foreign language often sound like a continuous stream of sound, with no breaks between words?

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Categorization

Categorization. Assigning things (percepts, concepts, objects, etc.) to distinct groups in a principled (rule-based) manner. Categorization and Perception. The world is so full of information. How do we know what to look for?. The world is very complex.

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Exemplar Theory

Exemplar Theory. April 12, 2012. One More Time Around. Review session has been scheduled: Social Sciences 821 Monday, April 16th, from 1-3 pm Doughnuts will be served! Final Exam: Tuesday, April 17th, from 12-2 pm Engineering C 123

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Categorical Perception

Categorical Perception. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell Animal Farm. Excitation, Sensation, Cognition.

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Cognitive Processes PSY 334

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Cognitive Processes PSY 334

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Phonetics, day 2

Phonetics, day 2. Oct 3, 2008 . Phonetics. Experimental a. production b. perception 2. Surveys/Interviews . b. perception. What kinds of research questions are asked about speech perception? identification and discrimination categorical perception

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Speech Science XIII

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Sounds and speech perception

Sounds and speech perception. Productivity of language Speech sounds Speech perception Integration of information. Productivity. Many (perhaps most) animals communicate What is the nature of their communication? Vervet monkey calls Specific calls for aerial and terrestrial predators.

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Categorical Perception

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SPEECH PERCEPTION

SPEECH PERCEPTION. The Speech Stimulus Perceiving Phonemes Top-Down Processing Is Speech Special?. The Speech Stimulus. Spoken words are composed of phonemes phoneme : smallest unit of speech that affects the meaning of a word. The Speech Stimulus: Articulation.

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