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10 pages in length. Virtually no element of understanding human function goes without challenge; language processing is no exception. Pitted against each other for the struggle to attain superiority, connectionism and motor theory have come to represent the two primary aspects associated with speech perception. Simply defined as learning by doing (connectivism) and learning by being (classical or motor theory), history is filled with intellectuals who eagerly posited the values of both sides, many who provided their own labels to the same concepts. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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come to represent the two primary aspects associated with speech perception. Simply defined as learning by doing (connectivism) and learning by being (classical or motor theory), history is filled
with intellectuals who eagerly posited the values of both sides, many who provided their own labels to the same concepts: Left Brain Right Brain Maslow Rational Intuitive Bruner Rational Metaphoric Koestler Associative Thinking Bisociative Thinking De
Bono Vertical Horizontal or Lateral Bronowski Deductive Imaginative Shopenhauer Objective Subjective Freud Secondary Process Primary Process Jung Causal Acausel Langer Discursive Symbolism Presentational Symb. Neisser Sequential Processing Multiple Processing Kubie Conscious Processing Preconscious Proc. (Sperry, 1999) II. THE DEBATE The precise neural
mechanisms underlying speech perception are still to a large extent unknown. The most accepted view is that speech perception depends on auditory-cognitive mechanisms specifically devoted to the analysis of
speech sounds. An alternative view is that, crucial for speech perception, it is the activation of the articulatory (motor) gestures that generate these sounds (Fadiga et al, 2002, p.
399). American Linguistics Professor Noam Chomsky - who argues there is a subject matter-specific language learning faculty innately present in every individual
that allows for people to grasp and utilize words - is a particularly pertinent theorist to examine when analyzing the debate between connectivist and classical theories of language processing.
That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language for the purpose of structuring arguments" (Snyder, 2001, p. 324) is the foundation upon which much contemporary linguistic
study is based. When challenged by the issue of social factors, Chomsky asserts that "children learn complex language despite poor stimuli and there must therefore exist a biological, universal
grammar" (Lewin, 1999, p. 36). For a normal child, developing language skills is accomplished with little conscious effort; by the age of three,
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