Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language Production

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.

Autorentext

Thomas Pechmann is Professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

Christopher Habel is Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Inhalt

Thomas Pechmann and Christopher Habel
Preface

Merrill Garrett
Introduction

Gerhard Blanken, Florian Kulke, Britta Biedermann, Tobias Bormann, Jürgen Dittmann, and Claus-W. Wallesch
The dissolution of word production in aphasia: Implications for normal functions

Jens Bölte, Pienie Zwitserlood, and Petra Dohmes
Morphology in experimental speech production research

Mary Carroll, Christiane von Stutterheim, and Ralf Nüse
The language and thought debate: A psycholinguistic approach

Grzegorz Dogil, Hermann Ackermann, Wolfgang Grodd, Hubert Haider, Hans Kamp, Jörg Mayer, Axel Riecker, Dietmar Röhm, Dirk Wildgruber, and Wolfgang Wokurek
Brain dynamics induced by language production.

Claire Gardent, Hélène Manuélian, Kristina Striegnitz, and Marilisa Amoia
Generating definite descriptions, non-incrementality, inference, and data

Markus Guhe, Christoper Habel, and Ladina Tschander
Incremental generation of interconnected preverbal messages

Silke Hamm and Jürgen Bredenkamp
Working memory and slips of the tongue

Karin Harbusch and Jens Woch
Integrated natural language generation with schema-tree adjoining grammars

Bernadette M. Jansma, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Jürn Möller, and Thomas F. Münte
Electrophysiological studies of speech production

Dirk Janssen, Denisa Bordag, and Thomas Pechmann
Morphological encoding and morphological structures in German

Gerard Kempen and Karin Harbusch
A corpus study into word order variation in German subordinate clauses: Animacy affects linearization independently of grammatical function assignment

Ralf Klabunde and Daniel Glatz
On the production of focus

Helen Leuninger, Annette Hohenberger, Eva Waleschkowski, Elke Menges, and Daniela Happ
The impact of modality on language production: Evidence from slips of the tongue and hand

Thomas Pechmann and Dieter Zerbst
Syntactic constraints on lexical access in language production

Ulrich Schade
The benefits of local-connectionist production

Heike Tappe, Holden Härtl, and Susan Olsen
Thematic information, argument structure, and discourse adaptation in language production

Rüdiger Weingarten, Guido Nottbusch, and Udo Will
Morphemes, syllables, and graphemes in written word production