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ROA 869-0906

A constraint-based explanation of the McGurk effect

Paul Boersma <paul.boersma at uva.nl>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=869


Abstract:
This paper gives an Optimality-Theoretic explanation of
the McGurk-effect, a robust phenomenon that illustrates
the low-level interaction of visual and auditory cues in
speech perception. Perception tableaus illustrate the interaction
between cue constraints (which evaluate the relation between
sensory and phonological representations) and language-specific
structural constraints (which evaluate phonological representatio
ns). The procedure of lexicon-driven perceptual learning
then explains how the constraints automatically come to
be ranked as they are. Finally, it is shown that the same
structural and cue constraints are used in phonological
and phonetic production (respectively) by the speaker.

Comments: 
Keywords: perception,multimodal perception
Areas: Phonology,Phonetics,Psycholinguistics,Language Acquisition,Learnability
Type: Manuscript

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=869