>>CB: Categorical perception is still fundamental to how language works, and how symbolling and culture works. In what sense is categorical perception a house of cards ? Categorical thinking is fundamental to humans, and it is fundamentally social/communicative/communal, so that it must use conventional or agreed upon uses of percepts.<<
>>CJ: As it has been identified and researched, categorical perception is not limited to human language or humans--even though it has been argued before as something that separates human language and humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. Most importantly though as it has been identified and researched, it appears to be an epiphenomenon.<<<<<< I love these papers. The second includes a really good overview of cutting edge developments in theories and models of speech perception (whereas in mainstream linguistics, speech perception and the phoneme had been largely begged questions). http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~lholt/publications/JapaneseQuail.pdf http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~port/HDphonol/Diehl.Lotto.Holt.speech.percptn.AnnlRevPsy2003.pdf CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
