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Cognitive Psychology PS2020 Compulsory Coursework Essay Year 2 term 1 Hemis number: 127844 Word count: 2146 How do we recognise spoken words? Speech perception is the process by which we use cognitive, motor, and sensory processes to hear and understand speech; it is a product of innate preparation ("nature") and sensitivity to experience ("nurture") as demonstrated in infants' abilities to perceive speech. To understand and produce language, we must be able to recognise the sound patterns of our language and the rules for how these sounds "map on" to meaning. Human infants are born with an amazing array of perceptual sensitivities, which enable them to detect the basic properties that are common to the world's languages. We are constantly inundated with acoustical energy. The problem is therefore to convert this energy into meaningful data. The acoustic patterns in speech are complex and differ greatly. Speech perception does not rely upon the extraction of simple invariant acoustic...

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