The premise of this paper is that the popular term “short-term memory”(STM) is vague
because it is used to refer to either (1) the set of representations from long-term memory …

One of the most widespread–and widely studied–properties of speech fundamental
frequency (Fo) is a tendency to decline gradually during the course of utterances. This …

In Speaking, Willem" Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik,
accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from …

Without words, children can't talk about people, places, things, actions, relations, or states,
and they have no grammatical rules. Without words, there would be no sound structure, no …

In this article it is argued that handwriting basically is a multi-component task. This implies
that the production of writing strokes is the overt manifestation of divergent cognitive …

Although the field of sociolinguistics has witnessed a growing interest in the sociophonetic
aspects of segmental and intonational variation, few studies have examined variation in …

An experiment examines talkers' utterances of words produced for the first time in a monolog
(“new” words) or for the second time (“old” words). The finding is that talkers distinguish old …

Compared the effect of frequency on lexical decision time (LDT) with that on reaction time
(RT) in four other tasks, for the same words and subjects. Exp. 1 yielded an effect on …

A theory of speech monitoring, proposed by Levelt (1983), assumes that the quality of one's
speech is checked by the speech comprehension system. This system inspects one's own …

Is coarticulation a reflection of planning an utterance or the automatic effect of producing
speech? This question was examined by requiring speakers to begin reading …