
Nina Jeanette HofferberthGoethe University Frankfurt
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Nina Jeanette Hofferberth's last projects were an article on slips of the tongue and tongue twisters and an introductory book on 'Speech production'.
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The paper presents a language production model referring the version of the Levelt model that is proposed by Roelofs starting from his 2005 paper. On the base of that model we argue that slips of the tongue and word finding failures, particularly tip-of-the-tongue states (TOT states), occur for the same reasons. This leads us to a sub classificatio...
The tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon refers to a temporary word finding failure. To induce TOTs in the lab, a common method is to ask for terms after providing created definitions. When in a TOT, syllable cues were presented in order to manipulate TOT resolution. After the presentation of the correct first syllable of the target word, TOTs could...
The Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon (TOT) represents, next to pauses and slips of the tongue, a further impairment in speech production. When experiencing a TOT, one has access to semantic (concept) and syntactic information (lemma) but only partial access to phonological information (lexeme). The complete word form cannot be retrieved.
In order to ev...
Tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states represent a speaker's temporary and typically frustrating inability to retrieve a known word. Although TOTs are a type of failed word retrieval, they are useful for understanding the processes that underlie successful speech production. Specifically, TOT states are thought to result from weakened connections between a...
Gisela Brünner. 2011. Gesundheit durchs Fernsehen. Linguistische Untersu-chungen zur Vermittlung medizinischen Wissens und Aufklärung in Gesund-heitssendungen. Duisburg: Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr. 528 S. Unter medizinischer Kommunikation werden verschiedene Kommunikations-typen zusammengefasst: Dazu gehören zum einen Gespräche von Medizinern mi...
The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon refers to the experience of having a word on the tip of one’s tongue: There is access to the word’s lemma but only partial access to the word’s lexeme. A common paradigm is to create definitions or questions to induce TOTs and measure the probability of unsuccessful retrieval. Whereas reaction time (RT) data has fre...
The tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon refers to the state in which a speaker is temporally unable to retrieve a word from memory, while being sure to know the word. The retrieval fluency (the ease and speed with which information is accessed) is impaired. Speakers in a TOT state can often give some information about the target (e.g., initial lette...
The tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon is a type of production failure during phonological encoding. A reaction-time experiment was performed to determine whether the right first syllable of the target facilitates TOT resolution and whether another first syllable inhibits TOT resolution. The syllables were presented individu-ally, which means not i...
A tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) experience refers to the state in which a speaker is temporally unable to retrieve a word from memory, while being sure that he knows the word. The recovered partial information can consist of competing items that resemble the target word phonologically or semantically and could give rise to competition or conflict during...
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I have some questions about the speech production model of Caramazza (1997).
Caramazza does not postulate a lemma-level in his Independent Network (IN) model.
1. I have the impression that the level of 'syntactic features' is equivalent to the lemma level (except that the lemma is not modality-neutral). So, is it just another naming for lemma-level or is there really a difference?
2. Why is the 'semantic representation' not more strongly linked with the 'syntactic features' (p. 196)?
3. How can the orthographic and phonological word forms ('O- and P-lexemes') have influence on the 'syntactic features' but not the other way round (p. 196)?
4. Are the 'syntactic features' on the same level as the 'phonological lexemes' (figure at p. 196) or it there a hierarchy (figure at p. 197)?
Source: Caramazza, A. (1997). How many levels of processing are there in lexical access? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 14, 177-208.
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