Language Production Across the Life Span: A Special Issue of Language And Cognitive Processes

by Meyer; Antje

• ISBN13: 9781841699851
• ISBN10: 1841699853
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-30
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Most current theories of lexical access in speech production are designed to capture the behaviour of young adults - typically college students. However, young adults represent a minority of the world's speakers. For theories of speech production, the question arises of how the young adults' speech develops out of the quite different speech observed in children and adolescents and how the speech of young adults evolves into the speech observed in older persons. Though a model of adult speech production need not include a detailed account language development, it should be compatible with current knowledge about the development of language across the lifespan. In this sense, theories of young adults' speech production may be constrained by theories and findings concerning the development of language with age. Conversely, any model of language acquisition or language change in older adults should, of course, be compatible with existing theories of the "ideal" speech found in young speakers. For this SpecialIssue we elicited papers on the development of speech production in childhood, adult speech production, and changes in speech production in older adults. The structure of the Special Issue is roughly chronological, focusing in turn on the language production of children (papers by Behrens; Goffman, Heisler & Chakraborty; Vousden & Maylor), young adults (papers by Roelofs; Schiller, Jansma, Peters & Levelt; Finocchiaro & Caramazza; Hartsuiker & Barkhuysen; Bonin, Malardier, Meot & Fayol) and older adults (papers by Mortensen, Meyer & Humphreys; Spieler & Griffin; Altmann & Kemper). We hope that the work compiled here will encourage researchers in any of these areas to consider the theories and findings in the neighbouring fields.

Table of Contents

Word and Sentence Production Across the Lifespan

Input-Output Relationship in First Language Acquisition

Mapping of Prosodic Structure onto Words and Phrases in Children's and Adult's Speech Production

Speech Errors Across the Lifespan

Functional Architecture of Naming Dice, Digits and Number Words

Monitoring Metrical Stress in Polysyllabic Words

The Production of Pronominal Clitics: Implications for Theories of Lexical Access

Language Production and Working Memory: the Case of Subject-verb Agreement

The Scope of Advance Planning in Written Picture Naming

Age-related Effects on Speech Production: A Review

The Influence of Age on the Time Course of Word Preparation in Multiword Utterances

Effects of Age, Animacy and Activation Order on Sentence Production

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