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An overview of recent psychological research into speech understanding is presented, with an emphasis on spoken word-recognition processes. Human speech understanding is shown to be interactive in character, with speech being understood as it is heard by optimally efficient processing procedures. The flow of analyses through the system is assumed to be controlled by the processing principles of bottom-up priority and of obligatory processing.
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Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (1980). Speech Understanding as a Psychological Process. In: Simon, J.C. (eds) Spoken Language Generation and Understanding. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9091-3_2
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