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The topic of audiovisual speech perception is addressed in Audiovisual Language Learning: How to Crack the Speech Code by Ear and by Eye. The publication presents nine contributions on the perceptual system''s reliance on visual speech to process and learn language. This learning is addressed in its various stages of development and in reference to typical and atypical language development. Insights are discussed in the areas of multimodelity, environmental constraints, brain maturation and visuo-attentional components.
Table of Contents
Announcement from the General Editor 6
Multimodal Language Learning: How to Crack the Speech Code by Ear and by Eye Mathilde Fort Nuria Sebastian-Galles 13
Multisensory Representation of Gender in Infants: An Eye-Tracking Study David Méary Carole Jaggie Olivier Pascalis 30
Impact of Bilingualism on Infants' Ability to Learn From Talking and Nontalking Faces Mathilde Fort Alba Ayneto-Gimeno Anira Escrichs Nuria Sebastian-Galles 57
Neural Processing of Congruent and Incongruent Audiovisual Speech in School-Age Children and AdultsJenni Heikkilä Kaisa Tiippana Otto Loberg Paavo H. T. Leppänen 79
The Role of Audiovisual Speech in the Early Stages of Lexical Processing as Revealed by the ERP Word Repetition Effect Anahita Basirat Angèle Brunellière Robert Hartsuiker 101
Beat Gestures and Syntactic Parsing: An ERP Study Emmanuel Biau Lauren A. Fromont Salvador Soto-Faraco 126
Response Errors in Females' and Males' Sentence Lipreading Necessitate Structurally Different Models for Predicting Lipreading Accuracy Lynne E. Bernstein 158
Eye Movements During Visual Speech Perception in Deaf and Hearing Children Elizabeth Worster Hannah Pimperton Amelia Ralph-Lewis Laura Monroy Charles Hulme Mairéad MacSweeney 179
Children With SLI Can Exhibit Reduced Attention to a Talker's Mouth Ferran Pons Monica Sanz-Torrent Laura Ferinu Joan Birulés Llorenç Andreu 192
Audiovisual Binding for Speech Perception in Noise and in Aging Attigodu Chandrashekara Ganesh Frédéric Berthommier Jean-Luc Schwartz 220
Index 222
