From the colonial cradle to non-linear dynamics
The awakening of speech perception in phonology
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2022.1.42641Keywords:
phonology, speech perception, complexityAbstract
Although we know speech perception plays a central role in language development, its adoption in the phonological theory has faced theoretical and methodological-technological resistance. However, interest in the area has increased for two main reasons: technological advances in speech sciences and the attempts to incorporate perceptual principles into traditional phonological models. In this article, we advocate that the late awakening of speech perception in phonology is related to its colonial cradle and to the way in which some Cartesian linguistic theories/models see and validate the individual and the individual acts, and, consequently, speech production and perception, constructs that in classical models of phonology do not fit in the definitions of language. The marginalization of perception is related to the “epistemicide” (SANTOS, 2019, p. 28) caused by hegemonic scientific (linguistic) paradigms supported by the privileged modern science. Thus, in this work, we seek to decolonize phonology, based on a scientific proposal grounded in Complexity, bringing to light a critical interpretation of the langue-parole dichotomy. In the perspective adopted in this text, the phonological grammar is guided by individual surface actions, and the perception of its phonic units becomes essential in order for it to be instantiated.
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