From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Overview
- 2 The brain's task: the structure of language
  - 2.1 Preliminaries
  - 2.2 Generativity and duality of patterning
  - 2.3 From ear to phoneme: the phonological problem
  - 2.4 From phoneme to meaning: the semantic problem
  - 2.5 From phoneme to sentence structure: the syntactic problem
  - 2.6 Summary of Section 2
- 3 The brain's solution: the machinery of language
  - 3.1 Speech perception
  - 3.2 The anatomy of the language system
  - 3.3 Specialisation within language areas: aphasia
  - 3.4 Specialisation within language areas: brain scanning
  - 3.5 Electrophysiological studies of language processing
  - 3.6 Summary of Section 3
- 4 Conclusions
- 5 Questions and answers
- Keep on learning
- Acknowledgements

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