Multidisciplinary approaches to language production / edited by Thomas Pechmann, Christopher Habel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 multidis.

Introduction; Incremental generation of interconnected preverbal messages; Generating definite descriptions, non-incrementality, inference, and data; Integrated natural language generation with schema-tree adjoining grammars; On the production of focus; Thematic information, argument structure, and discourse adaptation in language production; A corpus study into word order variation in German subordinate clauses: Animacy affects linearization independently of grammatical function assignment; The language and thought debate: A psycholinguistic approach

The impact of modality on language production: Evidence from slips of the tongue and handSyntactic constraints on lexical selection in language production; The dissolution of spoken word production in aphasia: Implications for normal functions; The benefits of local-connectionist production; Electrophysiological studies of speech production; Brain dynamics induced by language production; Morphology in experimental speech production research; Morphological encoding and morphological structures in German; Morphemes, syllables, and graphemes in written word production

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