PS: Introduction to Psycholinguistics

Winter Term 2005/06

Instructor: Daniel Wiechmann

Office hours: Mon 2-3 pm

Email: daniel.wiechmann@uni-jena.de

Phone: 03641-944534

Web: www.daniel-wiechmann.net

Language production:from thought to implementation

Processes of speech production fall into three broad areas: Conceptualization Formulation Encoding

Language production: conceptualization

Highest level Processes of conceptualization involve

determining what to say (often called message level processes)

Speakers conceive an intention and select relevant information from memory

Product is a preverbal message

Language production:macroplanning vs. microplanning

Macroplanning involves the elaboration of the communicative goals into a series of subgoals and the retrieval of appropriate information

Microplanning involves assigning the right propositional shape to these chunks of information, and deciding on information structural properties (i.e., e.g., topic, focus, etc.)

Language production:formulation

Processes of formulation involve translating the conceptual representation into a linguistic form

Two major processses: lexicalization (selection of individual words) syntactic planning

Language production:encoding

Processes of encoding involve detailed phonological and articulatory planning Phonological encoding involves turning words

into sounds Sounds must be produced in the correct sequence

and specify how the muscles of the articulatory system should be moved

Language production:speech production processes (Levelt 1989)

CONCEPTUALIZATION

FORMULATION

ARTICULATION

lexicalization & syntactic planning

phonological encoding & preparing instructions for articulatory system

macroplanning & microplanning

Language production:Levelt 1989: Model overview