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Language (Speech) Production

Language (Speech) Production

Language (speech) production

Core Areas

  • Agrammatism
  • Anomia
  • Anticipatory errors
  • Aphasia
  • Broca's area
  • Co-operative principle
  • Exchange errors
  • Lexicon
  • Lexicon bias
  • Morphological encoding
  • Perseverated errors
  • Phonetic encoding
  • Phonological encoding
  • Prosodic cues
  • Semantics
  • Spreading activation theory
  • Syntactics
  • WEAVER++ (Word-form Encoding by Activation and VERification)
  • Wernicke's area

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this chapter you should be able to:

  • define the key terms;
  • understand what speech errors tell us about normal language production;
  • outline and evaluate the models of language production offered by the key thinkers in this area, including the spreading activation model, anticipation and perseverated errors and WEAVER++ (Word-form Encoding by Activation and VERification); and
  • critically discuss the neurological evidence into this area, including the parts of the brain involved in speech production, and Broca's area and Wernicke's area.

Running Themes

  • Bottom-up processing
  • Cognitive neuropsychology
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Ecological validity
  • Experimental cognitive psychology
  • Schema
  • Semantics
  • Top-down processing

Introduction

Language is produced with an aim in mind, so language production is ...

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