Archives: 2008 August
The Blueprint of a Speaker | Part 4 of 4 | Morpho-Phonological Encoding and Articulation of Speech
August 28th, 2008, No Comments
Before we get into the thick of things I think we need just a little bit of definition so let’s first define morpho-phonological… “Morpho” is derived from the term morpheme which refers to the smallest linguistic unit that still maintains some meaning. For instance the term “a” can refer to “singular” or to the beginning [...]
The Blueprint of a Speaker | Part 3 of 4 | Grammatical Encoding
August 23rd, 2008, No Comments
Grammatical encoding is the process of taking in a pre-verbal message (the “mental concept” as it exists prior to describing it with words) and producing surface structures as output based on the activation and usage of singular and syntactic words and their “rules” as are held in the mental lexicon (the mental vocabulary).
Each and every [...]
The Blueprint of a Speaker | Part 2 of 4 | Conceptual Planning
August 19th, 2008, No Comments
When two people are communicating with each other, it is very safe to say that there is a joint action taking place. What this means is that the two or more parties are aware of some goal of the joint activity and of some form of common ground. Now what that common ground may be [...]
The Blueprint of a Speaker | Part 1 of 4 | Introduction
August 17th, 2008, No Comments
What is speech? What’s the big deal about being able to talk? Very rarely do we stop to think about how amazing the ability to speak to someone really is. Could you imagine a world where there were no language, no writing and no other form of communication outside of grunts and yelling and cooing [...]
