Abstract Near the end of ‘Naming Colours’, Lewis (1997) makes an interesting claim about relationship between linguistic and mental content; we are typically unable to read content a belief off sentence used express that or vice versa. I call this view ‘autonomism’. motivate defend autonomism discuss its importance in philosophy mind language. In nutshell, argue different theoretical roles play...

The current study lays the groundwork for a model of Mandarin tones based on both native speakers’ and non-native speakers’ perception and production. It demonstrates that there is variability in non-native speakers’ tone productions and that there are differences in the perceptual boundaries in native speakers and non-native speakers. There are four experiments in this study. Experiment 1 util...

Both auditory and visual information plays an important role for audiovisual speech perception during face-to-face communication. Several behavioral studies have shown that native English speakers and native Japanese speakers behaved differently in audiovisual speech perception. We hypothesized that there would be differences in neural processing between native English speakers and native Japan...