Current Perspectives on Language and Speech Production: A Critical Overview.
| Number | 556 |
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| Year | 1985 |
| Drawer | 10 |
| Entry Date | 11/17/1999 |
| Authors | Fowler, C. A. |
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| Publication | In R. Daniloff (Ed.), Speech Science: Recent advances in speech, hearing and language. Speech , language, and hearing sciences series, Vol. 3, 193-278. San Diego: CA, College-Hill Press. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0556.pdf |
| Abstract | [Concluding remarks] The intent of this chapter was to review most of what researchers are researching and writing about language and speech production. Several concluding observations are suggested by the review. 1. Researchers have devoted little attention to the relation of speech to language. This has allowed models of each to be developed that have limited bearing one on the other and that together posit, in my view, implausibly many computational planning and execution stages of production. In addition, the default view of the relation of speech to language suggested by researchers-namely, that planned linguistic units are translated into articulatory gestures-raises what seem to be insurmountable difficulties that can be avoided if the view of the relationship of speech to language depicted in Figure 6-8b is adopted. 2. Figure 6-8b allows for physical systems, by virtue of their superordinate organization, to embody psychological (cognitive, mental) functions. In my view, an important avenue for future research is one of understanding this characteristic of complex living systems, and of seeing how it is exploited to reduce the number of computationally or representationally controlled aspects of talking. 3. Research, theorizing, and modeling in speech and language production have been somewhat narrow in scope. If a language production researcher studies and models the structure of pausing in language production, he or she is unlikely to constrain theorizing and modeling by reference to data on spontaneous errors of speech, for example, or even to data on durational shortening in speech production. Collectively, researchers in the fields of language and speech production know a great deal about the superficial systematic properties of utterances. It becomes important now to attempt a realistic comprehensive theory of their underlying causes. |
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