Toward a Language-General Account of Word Production: The Proximate Units Principle.
Year: 2009
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: , which holds that the initial selection of sub-lexical phonological units (syllables, morae, phonemic segments, etc) is crucial both to understanding language specific processing, and to identifying what is language general in word production. We define proximate units and the role they play in speech planning and execution. The proximate units principle is consistent with much of what is already known about word form encoding across languages but also makes new predictions and can bring greater clarity to interpretations of experimental and speech error data.
Source: PubMed
Authors: Padraig G O'Seaghdha, Jenn-Yeu Chen
Institutions: Lehigh University, National Cheng Kung University
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W32566094