PSY 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Language Production, Perseveration, Spreading Activation
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Average speech rate of 150 words/minute, up to 5. 6 syllables/second. Have up to 100,000 words in vocabulary to choose among. Little time or memory to prepare far in advance. Rapid sequences of precise motor and tongue movements for articulation and create those speech sounds. Don"t have time to plan out the motor skills. Language production research started with study of speech errors. Get information about how system works normal from how it works when it falls apart. Corpora - listen for errors and documents those that occurred. Experiments - researcher tries to make errors happen more frequently than usual. Mistakes - errors in choosing the goal or the plan to achieve it. You don"t know what you"re going to say, so your speech doesn"t come out accurately because you did not plan. Slips - errors in carrying out the intended plan. You plan to what you say but there was an error along the ways.
