Robert F. Port
Rich memory and distributed phonology
Indiana University Bloomington
claimed experimental evidence human speech processing richness memory linguistic material supports distributed view language every speaker creates idiosyncratic perspective linguistic conventions community system words spelled memory speakers uniform letterlike units whether phones phonemes rather rich auditory patterns speech plus coupled visual somatosensory motor patterns evidence strong people actually employ highdimensional spectrotemporal auditory patterns support speech production speech perception linguistic memory real time abstract phonology phonemes distinctive features syllable types etc actually kind social institution loose inventory patterns evolves historical time human community structure many symmetries regularities community corpus linguistics studies phonological grammatical patterns various communities speakers linguists expect find descriptions make explicitly represented individual speakers mind much less every mind community alphabet actually technology imposed understanding language