MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
On the Representation of Words in Memory
Morris Halle
Institute Professor, MIT
Monday, October 23, 1995
4:00 PM (3:30 refreshments)
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
EECS Colloquium
Abstract
When we speak or listen to the speech of others we have the clear
impression that the utterances are sequences of discrete words. This
impression is, of course, only present when we hear speech that is in
a language we know. The impression that we hear words is therefore
not solely a function of the acoustic signal that strikes the hearer's
ear; it requires in addition that hearers have knowledge of the
language in which the utterances are framed; and an essential part of
this knowledge is the knowledge of the words.
None of us is born with the knowledge of the words of the language he
speaks; rather, knowledge of words is acquired in the course of a
speaker's life. When speakers acquire knowledge of a word they store
in memory information of a particular kind. The talk will consider
the evidence we have about the nature of this information and about
the manner in which this information is accessed by speakers in both
the production and the perception of spoken language.
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