Slips of the Ear
Subtitle: Errors in the Perception of Casual Conversation
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: November 12, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780121133405
Subjects: Perception; Semantics (meaning); Listening; Science; Psychology; Speech perception; Language; Speech errors; Audiology & Speech Pathology; Cognitive Psychology; Linguistics; Medical / Audiology & Speech Pathology; Acoustics & Sound
First sentence: Even though the phonetic information supplied to them by a speaker is variously ambiguous, degraded, or unclear, linguistically sophisticated listeners are rarely misled.