Speaking - The MIT Press

February 1989
6 x 9, 584 pp.
(CLOTH)
Trade

ISBN-10:
0-262-12137-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-12137-8

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ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing

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Speaking
From Intention to Articulation
Willem J. M. Levelt

In Speaking Willem "Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from constraints on conversational appropriateness to articulation and self-monitoring of speech. Speaking is unique in its balanced coverage of all major issues regarding the production of speech in the completeness of its treatment of the entire speech process, and in its strategy of exemplifing rather than formalizing theoretical issues.

Levelt provides a theoretically coherent picture of the speaker as information processor. He proposes a modular organization of relatively autonomous processors for message generation, grammatical encoding, phonological encoding, and articulation. For each processor, he distinguishes carefully between its operations and its input and output representations. The chapters are arranged so that the reader builds knowledge of semantics, syntax, lexical structure, and phonology as it becomes required for understanding the processing issues.

Speaking: From Intention to Articulation inaugurates the ACL-MIT Series in Natural-Language Processing, edited by Aravind Joshi. A Bradford Book

"No previous book on human speech has even tried to cover the fall domain from speaker as message formulator and participant in dialogue to speaker as monitor of his or her own articulations. Pim Levelt has not only attempted this herculean task but has actually succeeded in advancing an explicit model of speech production in its totality. Levelt's book stands as a landmark among current attempts to elaborate a mature science of language performance, a benchmark against which future research will be judged."
- John C. Marshall, The Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford

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