Special issue on speech/language

There is a Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society that is now available on their web site. The issue was edited by Brian Moore, Lorraine Tyler, and William Marslen-Wilson.

The Table of Contents is copied here. There are tons of useful papers in this issue. Our group also has a paper (Poeppel, Idsardi & van Wassenhove, Speech perception at the interface of neurobiology and linguistics.)


Volume 363, Number 1493 / March 12, 2008 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is now available on the journals.royalsociety.org website at http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/g8qw148t1113/.

This issue contains:

Introduction. The perception of speech: from sound to meaning p. 917
Brian C.J. Moore, Lorraine K. Tyler, William Marslen-Wilson
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2195

Neural representation of spectral and temporal information in speech p. 923
Eric D. Young
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2151

Basic auditory processes involved in the analysis of speech sounds p. 947
Brian C.J. Moore
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2152

Acoustic and auditory phonetics: the adaptive design of speech sound systems p. 965
Randy L. Diehl
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2153

Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) p. 979
Patricia K. Kuhl, Barbara T. Conboy, Sharon Coffey-Corina, et al.
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2154

The processing of audio-visual speech: empirical and neural bases p. 1001
Ruth Campbell
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2155

Listening to speech in the presence of other sounds p. 1011
C.J. Darwin
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2156

Functional imaging of the auditory processing applied to speech sounds p. 1023
Roy D. Patterson, Ingrid S. Johnsrude
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2157

Fronto-temporal brain systems supporting spoken language comprehension p. 1037
Lorraine K. Tyler, William Marslen-Wilson
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2158

The fractionation of spoken language understanding by measuring electrical and magnetic brain signals p. 1055
Peter Hagoort
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2159

Speech perception at the interface of neurobiology and linguistics p. 1071
David Poeppel, William J. Idsardi, Virginie van Wassenhove
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2160

Neural specializations for speech and pitch: moving beyond the dichotomies p. 1087
Robert J. Zatorre, Jackson T. Gandour
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2161

Language processing in the natural world p. 1105
Michael K. Tanenhaus, Sarah Brown-Schmidt
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2162