Corrigendum: What the Heck Is Salience? How Predictive Language Processing Contributes to Sociolinguistic Perception

What the Heck Is Salience? How Predictive Language Processing Contributes to Sociolinguistic Perception

Language, Music, and Brain

Introduction: Over the last centuries, scientists have been trying to figure out how the brain is learning the language. By 1980, the study of brain-language relationships was based on the study of human brain damage. But since 1980, neuroscience methods have greatly improved. There is controversy about where music, composition, or the perception of language and music are in the brain, or wheth...

What do Listeners Know about Sociolinguistic Variation?

A pair of experiments addressed two questions regarding listeners’ sociolinguistic knowledge: First, how do listeners use facts about speech to inform their beliefs about speakers? Second, and conversely, how might listeners use facts about speakers to inform their perceptions of speech? Results of Experiment 1 demonstrate that listeners can infer characteristics of speakers from their use of a...

1 Awareness, Salience, and Stereotypes in Exemplar-Based Models of Speech Production and Perception

The contributions to this volume discuss the degree to which awareness plays a role in how language is produced (Babel, Zimman), acquired (Nycz), and processed (Beck, Carmichael, Squires). The conclusions underscore the need for models of speech production and perception that can account for different amounts of awareness and attention. In this chapter, we seek to lay out how awareness, salienc...

Words and the World: Predictive Coding and the Language-Perception-Cognition Interface

Can what we know change what we see? Does language affect cognition and perception? The last few years have seen increased attention to these seemingly disparate questions, but with little theoretical advance. We argue that substantial clarity can be gained by considering these questions through the lens of predictive processing, a framework in which mental representations—from the perceptual t...