View Item 

Spoken word production: Processes and potential breakdown

Access Status
Open access
Authors
Biedermann, Britta
Fieder, N.
Nickels, L.
Date
2018
Type
Book Chapter

Metadata
Show full item record
Citation
Biedermann, B. and Fieder, N. and Nickels, L. 2018. Spoken word production: Processes and potential breakdown, in Bar On, A. and Ravit, D. (ed), Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Source Title
Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives
DOI
School
School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
URI
Collection
Abstract

Introduction: The processes of spoken word production have been a focus of interest for decades and this research has been summarised in several reviews (e.g., Friedmann, Biran, & Dotan, 2013; Nickels, 1997, 2001a,b; Wilshire, 2008). However, many questions remain unanswered and consequently spoken word production remains an area of research interest, informed by data from unimpaired and impaired adult language, as well as language development. Several theories of spoken language production have been proposed over the last half century, each differing slightly in levels of representation, processing steps, and activation flow. In this chapter, we focus on four of the most influential theories of spoken language production.