JLP374H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lightning, Lexeme, Subcategorization
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Language production pressure changes in the air. No speech in the physical world; physical aspect of speech is a sound wave, what makes these sound waves speech is processing it through our minds. When people hear speech, they process sounds incrementally, i. e. sound by sound we know this from previous lectures; people try to access words with as little information that they are provided o. This doesn"t make sense for speech production however; it doesn"t seem sensible that we would only be thinking about producing the next sound as we speak. In normal speech, we have pauses, breaks, false starts, repairs, and repetitions. Fillers uh, um; different languages have different sounding fillers. They"re coded specifically for the language being spoken o: when thinking about language production, you can think of them as words (even though they"re not really words) o. The fillers don"t actually appear in the same places uh for smaller breaks, vs. um for larger/longer breaks.
