Lecture 8 - Language Production Flashcards
What are the mainstream tools for communication?
Speaking and Writing
What can we use for communication?
Signing tools
What is the similarity between speaking and writing?
They are for communication.
What is the difference between speaking and writing in terms of _____-bound and permanence?
Speech is time-bound and transient while writing is space-bound andpermanent.
What is the difference between speaking and writing in terms of documentation?
Writing is easier to document as speech information requires more space to be stored forever.
Writing or speaking occupies a higher information>
Speech occupies a much higher information than writing.
Speech or writing needs more preparation time?
Writing needs more preparation time than speech as it needs much more information to provide for writing.
________ can carry more information in social attributes?
Speech can carry more information in social attributes as you can convey information in literal, cultural and emotional aspects in speech while you can only convey literal information in writing.
How can you obtain a person’s condition in speech?
Non-literal information like the tone of voice in speech
What is human’s speaking rate?
120 - 200 words per minute
Information rate in handwriting?
13 words per minute
Information rate in computer keyboard typing?
40 words per minute
Speaking or writing has a higher information rate?
Speaking has a much higher information rate than writing.
Different languages have different language f_______ and have different s_________ r________.
Different languages have different language features and have different speech rates.
How can we calculate and compare the speed of speaking?
We can compare the speed of speaking by calculating how many syllables the person can produce each minute.
How can speech rate be calculated?
Syllable rate
In addition to speech rate, what do we need to calculate the information rate?
We need to consider how much information is carried in each syllable.
How to calculate information rate?
Information carried per syllable * syllable rate
Different languages have similar/different information rate?
Different languages have similar information rate.
What are the four stages in speech processing?
- Semantic level
- Syntactic level
- Morphological Level
- Phonological Level
What level is the semantic level?
Planning level
What is semantic level about?
Semantic level is about the meaning of what is being said by first organising the meaning and intention.
What is syntactic level?
It is the grammatical structure of the words in the planned utterance.
What is being done at the syntactic level?
We organise syntactic structure by organising words in a correct order.
What is morphological level?
It is tho access the form of words, which are the morphemes (the basic unit of meaning).
What is activated and accessed in the morphological level?
Every single feature of the unit of word