PS: Introduction to Psycholinguistics

1. 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

2. Language production:from thought to implementation • Processes of speech production fall into three broad areas: • Conceptualization • Formulation • Encoding

3. 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

4. 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.)

5. 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

6. 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

7. Language production:speech production processes (Levelt 1989) macroplanning & microplanning CONCEPTUALIZATION lexicalization & syntactic planning FORMULATION phonological encoding & preparing instructions for articulatory system ARTICULATION

8. Language production:Levelt 1989: Model overview