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Aug 28 2008

The Blueprint of a Speaker | Part 4 of 4 | Morpho-Phonological Encoding and Articulation of Speech

by admin on August 28, 2008

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 of “apple”. A morpheme is made up of phonemes, which as a refresher are the smallest linguistic unit and are simply sounds that do not necessarily carry any meaning on their own. Phonological is derived from the term phoneme which is the smallest unit of [...]

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Aug 23 2008

The Blueprint of a Speaker | Part 3 of 4 | Grammatical Encoding

by admin on August 23, 2008

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 word that we use has syntactic rules attached to it that determine how it interacts with other words. The rule are interactive in themselves, meaning that they can change depending on what rules they are presently attached to as a result of being placed [...]

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