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Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions
Edited by Gary Libben, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman
[Not in series 238] 2021
► pp. 77–108

Chapter 4
Why we need to investigate casual speech to truly understand language production, processing and the mental lexicon

| University of Alberta
| Radboud University
Article outline
  • Thesis
  • Commentaries on Tucker and Ernestus thesis
    • Ray Jackendoff commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis
    • James Myers commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis
    • Dorit Ravid commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis
    • Russel Richie commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis
    • Chris Westbury commentary on Tucker and Ernestus thesis
  • The article
    • Why casual speech has attracted so little attention within psycholinguistics
    • Relevance of differences between casual and careful speech for psycholinguistics
      • Differences in word choice
      • Differences at the syntactic level
      • Differences in tones and intonation
      • Phonological assimilation
      • Single sound substitutions and the absence of sounds
      • Continua of pronunciation variation
    • Challenges and opportunities for research on the production of casual speech
      • Experimental paradigms
      • Compiling and working with corpora of casual speech
      • Statistical modeling of casual speech data
    • Challenges and opportunities for research on the comprehension of casual speech
      • The stimuli in comprehension experiments
      • Experimental paradigms
    • Where do we think psycholinguistic research should go?
  • References
Published online: 13 October 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.238.04tuc
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