Language Notes

Speech Production

Mental Lexicon

- defined as a mental dictionary that contains information regarding words, meaning, pronounciation, syntactic characteristics.- it is a construct used in psycholinguistics to refer to individual speakers lexical or word representations.- it deals with those words we stored, activated, processed and retrieved by each speaker- an individual's mental lexicon changes and grows as new words are learned and is always developing.

Stages of Speech Production

1. The Morphophonological tier - ses out how the phonemes are grouped together to form words and morphemes.

2. Syllabic Structure - captures how spoken words can be decomposed into syllabes

3. The Prosodic Structure - specifies how words are grouped into spoken phrases and how within phrases innotation and stress are assigned.

Tip of the tongue

- something is at the edge at your memory but you cannot produce it:

      - temporary inability to produce the word/phrase, but it might be later retrieved

- the word or name is in your memory (mental lexicon) but you cannot pronounce the whole word or…