Language Production Flashcards
week 11
what is not a prosodic cue?
frequency
the garden path model of parsing ncan be described as:
a two-stage, serial processing model
what is not a type of inference?
embellishment
is speech production effortless?
○ 2-3 words per second (~150 words per minute)
○ Probably not as effortless as we think it is.
* Use strategies to reduce processing demands when planning speech:
○ Deciding what we are going to say before we say it
§ Cognitively demanding
what is preformulation?
production of phrases used before A piece of cake/ Under the weather
§ Go to well used phrases (generically understood) to make speech production easier
Consensus in understanding
what is under specification?
use of simplified expressions …or something/ …and things like that
§ Simplified expressions that make understanding speech easier.
Attached to sentences to simplify what we are saying.
how does intoxication infliuence language?
- Reveals complexities of speech production
○ Requires effort.
○ Impairs attention, memory, thinking and reasoning
○ Produce more dysfluencies (e.g. stammering, stuttering) (1)
○ Slower speaking rate (1)
○ Reduction in richness and creativity (2)
(1) Hollien et al (2001); (2) Reichel & Kisler (2002)
what is speech planning?
- First stage of speech production
- Might occur at different levels
○ Clause
§ Part of the sentence containing a subject and a verb
□ The dog (subject) is sleeping (verb)…
○ Phrase
§ A group of words that express a single idea
□ …on the bed
- Might occur at different levels
what is a clause level speech production?
Speech errors provide evidence that speech planning extends over the entire clause
We have to have planned the sentences before we say it- suggests that speech planning may not only occur at clause level
what is phrase level speech production?
Describe moving pictures
has two differing conditions
what are the 2 different levels of phrase level speech production?
Simple initial noun phrase
§ The tie moves above the candle and the foot
§ One noun at the start of the phrase
2. Conjoined initial noun phrase
§ The tie and the candle move above the foot
§ Two nouns at the start of the phrase.
* Simple initial noun phrase
○ The tie moves above the candle and the shoe
* Conjoined initial noun phrase
○ The tie and the candle move above the shoe
Martin et al (2004)
what did Martin et al (2004) into phrase level processing find?
- Simple initial noun phrase
○ The tie moves above the candle and the foot- Conjoined initial noun phrase
○ The tie and the candle move above the foot
* Took longer (~77ms) to initiate conjoined phrase
At phrase level when speech becomes more complicated (more nouns in sentence) it takes us longer to produce (and plan) the sentence
- Conjoined initial noun phrase
what are speech errors?
- Generally accurate when speaking, but sometimes prone to error
- Majority of errors are not random, but systematic
○ Don’t happen at random
○ Specific speech errors that we can make - Provide insight into how cognitive systems work
What happens when we plan and produce speech
- Majority of errors are not random, but systematic
what is word exchange? give an example
Speech planning extends over the entire clause
- My chair seems empty without my room
what is sound (phoneme) exchange? give an example.
Sounds of words planned shortly in advance
Sounds have switched (sound exchange)
- bedbugs to budbegs
what is spoonerism? give an example.
Initial letter of two words are switched
First letter of two words are switched
- saying “go and shake a tower” instead of “go and take a shower”
what is semantic substitution? give an example.
○ Word replaced by another with similar meaning (semantically similar)
§ Where is my cricket bat?
Where is my cricket racket?
what is morpheme exchange? give an example
○ Inflexions (first few letter in a word) /suffixes (last few letters in a word) attached to wrong words
○ Groups of letters are swapped.
§ He has already trunked two packs
what is number agreement? give an example.
○ The team has won the match
○ Collective noun is singular, but… The team have won the match …resembles plural noun
Word attached to a plural can be incorrect.
what tupe of error is: “i saw you fight a liar”
spoonerism