Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language Production (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Book 157)

Main description: This volume comprises contributions from different disciplines (cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, neuroscience) concerned with the generation of natural speech. It summarizes the outcome of a six-year long priority program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) that aimed at bringing together colleagues with different viewpoints but sharing a principal interest in the cognitive processes underlying language production. The result is a state-of-the-art discussion of one of the most fascinating branches of human behavior taking into account a particularly rich multidisciplinary empirical data base Introduction 9 Incremental generation of interconnected preverbal messages 15 Generating definite descriptions, non-incrementality, inference, and data 61 Integrated natural language generation with schema-tree adjoining grammars 95 On the production of focus 125 Thematic information, argument structure, and discourse adaptation in language production 147 A corpus study into word order variation in German subordinate clauses: Animacy affects linearization independently of grammatical function assignment 181 The language and thought debate: A psycholinguistic approach 191 The impact of modality on language production: Evidence from slips of the tongue and hand 227 Syntactic constraints on lexical selection in language production 287 The dissolution of spoken word production in aphasia: Implications for normal functions 311 The benefits of local-connectionist production 347 Electrophysiological studies of speech production 369 Brain dynamics induced by language production 405 Morphology in experimental speech production research 439 Morphological encoding and morphological structures in German 481 Morphemes, syllables, and graphemes in written word production 537 Working memory and slips of the tongue 581 Index 609

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