scholarly journals Orthographic effects in Mandarin spoken language production

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingqing Qu ◽  
Markus F. Damian
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Spoken Language

Spoken language comprehension: insights from eye movements

2007 ◽  
pp. 308-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Language Production ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Response Measure ◽  
Visual World ◽  
Spoken Language Processing ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension

Recently, eye movements have become a widely used response measure for studying spoken language processing in both adults and children, in situations where participants comprehend and generate utterances about a circumscribed “Visual World” while fixation is monitored, typically using a free-view eye-tracker. Psycholinguists now use the Visual World eye-movement method to study both language production and language comprehension, in studies that run the gamut of current topics in language processing. Eye movements are a response measure of choice for addressing many classic questions about spoken language processing in psycholinguistics. This article reviews the burgeoning Visual World literature on language comprehension, highlighting some of the seminal studies and examining how the Visual World approach has contributed new insights to our understanding of spoken word recognition, parsing, reference resolution, and interactive conversation. It considers some of the methodological issues that come to the fore when psycholinguists use eye movements to examine spoken language comprehension.

Some Effects of Context On Spoken Language Production

1987 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pedlow ◽  
Roger Wales
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Spoken Language

Properties of Spoken Language Production

2006 ◽  
pp. 21-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zenzi M. Griffin ◽  
Victor S. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Spoken Language

From Thought to Action

2018 ◽  
pp. 397-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Rapp ◽  
Markus F. Damian
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Single Word ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
Language Modality ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Reading And Spelling

Written language is unlike other language components, in that reading and spelling are evolutionarily recent skills (i.e. human inventions that entered our repertoire only a few thousand years ago and have become widespread in the global population only in the past 100 years). Whereas reading has received considerable interest in psycholinguistics, written language production has been the “neglected” language modality, even though in this age of written electronic communication via email, texting, messaging, and so on, increasing numbers of people are processing written language as much or more than spoken language. In this chapter, we review some of the central issues in the psycholinguistics of single word written language production with the goal of providing the reader with an understanding of the cognitive and neural bases of this vital component of our language expertise.

scholarly journals A unified neurocomputational bilateral model of spoken language production in healthy participants and recovery in poststroke aphasia

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (51) ◽  
pp. 32779-32790
Author(s):  
Ya-Ning Chang ◽  
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Partial Recovery ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Formal Basis ◽  
Healthy Participants

Understanding the processes underlying normal, impaired, and recovered language performance has been a long-standing goal for cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Many verbally described hypotheses about language lateralization and recovery have been generated. However, they have not been considered within a single, unified, and implemented computational framework, and the literatures on healthy participants and patients are largely separated. These investigations also span different types of data, including behavioral results and functional MRI brain activations, which augment the challenge for any unified theory. Consequently, many key issues, apparent contradictions, and puzzles remain to be solved. We developed a neurocomputational, bilateral pathway model of spoken language production, designed to provide a unified framework to simulate different types of data from healthy participants and aphasic patients. The model encapsulates key computational principles (differential computational capacity, emergent division of labor across pathways, experience-dependent plasticity-related recovery) and provides an explanation for the bilateral yet asymmetric lateralization of language in healthy participants, chronic aphasia after left rather than right hemisphere lesions, and the basis of partial recovery in patients. The model provides a formal basis for understanding the relationship between behavioral performance and brain activation. The unified model is consistent with the degeneracy and variable neurodisplacement theories of language recovery, and adds computational insights to these hypotheses regarding the neural machinery underlying language processing and plasticity-related recovery following damage.

Removal of Muscle Artifacts from EEG Recordings of Spoken Language Production

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
De Maarten Vos ◽  
Stephanie Riès ◽  
Katrien Vanderperren ◽  
Bart Vanrumste ◽  
Francois-Xavier Alario ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Eeg Recordings

Effects of Prosody and Position on the Timing of Deictic Gestures

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 458-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Leavy Rusiewicz ◽  
Susan Shaiman ◽  
Jana M. Iverson ◽  
Neil Szuminsky
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Language Production ◽  
American English ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Compound Words ◽  
Acoustic Measures ◽  
Repeated Measures Design ◽  
American English Speakers ◽  
Syllable Position

Purpose In this study, the authors investigated the hypothesis that the perceived tight temporal synchrony of speech and gesture is evidence of an integrated spoken language and manual gesture communication system. It was hypothesized that experimental manipulations of the spoken response would affect the timing of deictic gestures. Method The authors manipulated syllable position and contrastive stress in compound words in multiword utterances by using a repeated-measures design to investigate the degree of synchronization of speech and pointing gestures produced by 15 American English speakers. Acoustic measures were compared with the gesture movement recorded via capacitance. Results Although most participants began a gesture before the target word, the temporal parameters of the gesture changed as a function of syllable position and prosody. Syllables with contrastive stress in the 2nd position of compound words were the longest in duration and also most consistently affected the timing of gestures, as measured by several dependent measures. Conclusion Increasing the stress of a syllable significantly affected the timing of a corresponding gesture, notably for syllables in the 2nd position of words that would not typically be stressed. The findings highlight the need to consider the interaction of gestures and spoken language production from a motor-based perspective of coordination.

Spoken Language Production in Huntington's and Parkinson's Diseases

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1350-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura L. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Motor Speech ◽  
Parkinson’S Diseases ◽  
Language Measures ◽  
Simple Sentences ◽  
And Control ◽  
Language Profiles

The purpose of this study was to investigate the presence and nature of spoken language deficits in Huntington's (HD) and Parkinson's (PD) diseases. Specifically, the study examined whether (a) the spoken language abilities of patients with HD or PD differ from those of age-matched control participants with no brain damage, (b) HD and PD are associated with similar spoken language profiles, and (c) the spoken language abilities of patients with HD or PD are related to the severity of their motor speech deficits, cognitive impairments, or both. All participants completed picture description tasks and a battery of cognitive and motor speech tests. Syntactic, quantitative, and informativeness measures of spoken language were analyzed. In terms of syntax, patients with HD produced shorter utterances, a smaller proportion of grammatical utterances, a larger proportion of simple sentences, and fewer embeddings per utterance than their non-brain-damaged peers. The HD group also produced utterances that were shorter and syntactically simpler than those of the PD group, despite similar performances on the cognitive and motor speech tests. The only syntactic difference between the PD group and their control group was that patients with PD produced a smaller proportion of grammatical sentences. Although the patient and control participants tended to produce similar amounts of verbal output, less of what the patients said was considered informative. Correlations between language measures and test battery results suggested that the spoken language abilities of patients with HD or PD are related to a variety of neuropsychological and motor speech changes. The implications of these findings for the clinical management of HD and PD are discussed.

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