ABSTRACT
The corresponding phonological category in speech is that of the stressed syllable or foot. This chapter outlines a theory and its implementation, and show how it copes with real examples of spoken English and French. It discusses the implications of this theory for the learning, organization, and recognition of speech. The chapter considers auditory image flow to be analogous to visual image flow and the different possible space-time orientations of the dynamic receptive fields. More fundamental reason is the assumption underlying most theories and models of speech perception that there exists a lexicon of abstract, canonical prototypes in long-term memory, which are compared with the incoming signal. In control theory, sensory-guided action requires three principal components: a sensory system(s), a controller, and a plant. From a sensorimotor perspective, prosody perception, at the most abstract level of description, is a form of sensory-guided action.
