Sensorimotor constraints and the organization of sound patterns
Lucie Ménard | Université du Québec à Montréal | Center for Research on Brain, Language, and Music
In this chapter, we explore the relationships between sensorimotor constraints and the organization of sound patterns. An investigation of universal tendencies found in languages of the world reveals some recurrent patterns that are hypothesized to be related to the speaker’s production mechanism and the listener’s perceptual system. Linguistic/phonemic representations would thus be tightly related to physical and peripheral constraints, suggesting that the origins of languages are to be found, at least partly, in the human body.
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Trudeau-Fisette, Pamela, Mark Tiede, Lucie Ménard & Hanjun Liu
2017.
Compensations to auditory feedback perturbations in congenitally blind and sighted speakers: Acoustic and articulatory data.
PLOS ONE 12:7
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Bouchard, Denis
2015.
Brain readiness and the nature of language.
Frontiers in Psychology 6
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