PSYC 341 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prosodic Unit, Pitch Contour, Language Production

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 341
• Professor: Irina Pivneva

Document Summary

Monolingual mode: when the bilingual is communicating with a person who only knows one of the bilingual"s language. Bilingual mode: when the interlocutors share two or more languages, the languages are active albeit to different degrees, and language mixing can occur between them. Speech production involves three broad components of process conceptualization, formulation, and articulation. Conceptualization: during this process, the speaker must choose and organize the information that needs to be expressed based on what the listener already knows. Formulation: words are selected and arranged in the correct syntax order. The appropriate morphemes are then chosen and are used to build a syllable structure for each word. Larger words are also put together, such as phonological and intonational phrases accompanied by their pitch contour. Articulation: speaker"s articulatory apparatus consists of a respiratory and laryngeal system, a vocal tract as well as a number of articulators.