How Lip Reading Shapes Speech Perception

Speech perception depends on both hearing and vision. In many face-to-face conversations, the mouth gives strong visual clues about what a person is saying. Those clues can help the brain sort out speech sounds that are hard to hear clearly.

This reliance on visual input is one reason spoken lang...

Language perception?in a spoken form?benefits from face-to-face interactions, as the mouth supplies good visual information for articulating specific sounds.

For instance, in an up-close and unobstructed situation, an individual can watch their friend mention going to the beach. In this case, they use visual input?observing the movement a...