Description:
Basics of linguistics and phonetics: Speech Production -- Speech Perception -- Speech Acquisition -- Stages of Speech Acquisition -- Basics of neurobiology and its computer simulation: Anatomical and Functional Structure of the Nervous System -- Neural Modeling: The STAA-approach -- Neural Modeling: the NEF-approach -- Models of speech processing and speech acquisition: A Selection of Models -- The LS-Model (Lexicon-Syllabary-Model)
This book explores the processes of spoken language production and perception from a neurobiological perspective. After presenting the basics of speech processing and speech acquisition, a neurobiologically-inspired and computer-implemented neural model is described, which simulates the neural processes of speech processing and speech acquisition. This book is an introduction to the field and aimed at students and scientists in neuroscience, computer science, medicine, psychology and linguistics