Production Of Speech

purposes of speech
1. Pragmatics
  1. Function of speech/language use in context
  2. Grice's Maxims (1975)
    1. Maxim of quantity - informative but succinct
    2. Maxim of quality - be truthful and provide evidence
    3. Maxim of relationship - be relevant to conversation, maintain relationship
    4. Maxim of manner - be clear, avoid ambiguity
2. Knowing the purpose behind the utterance
3. Direct speech/ indirect speech
Cognitive level of language production
1. Choosing words (lexical selection)
2. Planning the message
3. Ordering words (syntactic planning)
4. Articulating words
Cognitive accounts of speech production Levelt (1989)
1. Conceptualisation
  1. Determine what to say, construct conceptual representation
2. Articulation
  1. Motor execution
3. Formulation
  1. Translate representation info linguistic form - turn words into sounds
Hesitation and Pauses
1. Spontaneous speech is typically not fluent and grammatical
  1. filled with hesitations, pauses, errors, corrections etc.
Speech errors
1. Heavily influenced models of speech production
2. Freud's account reveals repressed thoughts and desires
3. Current accounts in terms of cognitive processes
4. Speech errors are systematic

Resource summary

	Created by Vicky Whiting about 8 years ago