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