Abstract

This chapter begins with a review and discussion of the theoretical and meta-theoretical notions that underlie the traditional, abstractionist characterization of speech perception. Once the traditional framework is described, the chapter moves on to an emerging view of speech processing and memory where both explicit and implicit effects find a unified, straightforward explanation. Finally, it expands this emerging view to show that it is highly compatible with a seamless, undichotomized human memory system that incorporates both implicit and explicit memory components.