COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF LANGUAGE:

Speech and Lexical Processing

RESEARCH : THE BIG QUESTIONS

• how does competition influence language processing?

• to what extent does competition at one level of the grammar affect processing at other levels of the grammar?

• How do listeners perceive a stable phonetic percept despite the many sources of variability, e.g. vowel context, phonetic position, speaking rate?

• How do we learn phonetic categories?