Sentence production models

• Message level


  Very abstract representation of what we are going to say
• Message level


  • Choosing participants
  • Events
  • Focus/perspective
  • Givenness
  • Tense + aspect
• Functional level


  Activations of relevant lemmas. Still no syntactic frame
• Positional level


  Syntactic frame chosen, insertion of invariant lexemes/morphemes
• Phonetic level


  Insertion of variant lexemes/morphemes and syllabification
• Articulatory level


  Speech motor programme assembled
• Conceptual level


  (corresponding to Garrett's message level)
• Formulation level


  (corresponding to Garrett's Function, Positional, and Phonetic levels)
• Articulation level


  (corresponding to Garrett's Articulatory level)
• 1a. info at ML


  Choosing participants, events, focus/perspective, givenness, tense + aspect
• ML to FL


  Retrieval of lemmas & associated argument structure. Process of thematic role assignment.
• 2a. Info at FL

  Retrieval of lexemes and syntactic frame. Linking Process.
• FL to PosL


  Retrieval of regular morphemes / metrical structure. Regular phonological processes
• 3a. Info at PosL

  Retrieval of syllables / articulation plans
• PosL to PhonL


  Motor coding process
• 4a. Info at PhL

  Retrieval of syllables / articulation plans
• PhL to ArtL


  Motor coding process
• Motivation for syllables as units of representation
• Application to Speech and Language Therapy
• Sentence Production Models


  1. Message level

  2. Functional level

  3. Positional level

  4. Phonetic level
• Message level


  Representation of entities we wish to talk about, and what kind of situation or event they are participating in. Relational information, e.g. what is the relationship between an entity and an action? Is that entity the AGENT of the action, or the PATIENT of the action?
• Given information


  Comes early and is expressed using pronouns
• Focus on the verb

  Tense, grammatical aspect (are we inside or outside of the event?)

  
• From Message level to Functional level

  Retrieve lemmas and associated argument structure, process of thematic role assignment
• Functional level


  Representation of semantic information: arguments with correct roles, given/new information. No syntactic information, no word order.
• Garrett's model and Levelt's model are discussed
• Five-minute exercises on the models are mentioned
• Application to Speech and Language Therapy is discussed
• Bibliography is provided
• Motor instructions
• I love to do jigsaws (crosswords)
• I don't want to jump ahead of the gun
• I'm a weekend for maniacs
• I'd hear one if I knew it
• People read the backses of boxes
• Terry charts
• Leading list
• Reading rist
• Get out of the clark!
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