Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of language processing. In rejecting this dichotomy, we instead assert that producing and understanding are interwoven, and that this interweaving is what enables people to predict themselves and each other. We start by noting that production and comprehension are forms of action and action perception. We then consider the evidence for interweaving in action, action perception, and joint action, and explain such evidence in terms of prediction. Specifically, we assume that actors construct forward models of their actions before they execute those actions, and that perceivers of others' actions covertly imitate those actions, then construct forward models of those actions. We use these accounts of action, action perception, and joint action to develop accounts of production, comprehension, and interactive language. Importantly, they incorporate well-defined levels of linguistic representation (such as semantics, syntax, and phonology). We show (a) how speakers and comprehenders use covert imitation and forward modeling to make predictions at these levels of representation, (b) how they interweave production and comprehension processes, and (c) how they use these predictions to monitor the upcoming utterances. We show how these accounts explain a range of behavioral and neuroscientific data on language processing and discuss some of the implications of our proposal.

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An integrated theory of language production and comprehension

A spreading-activation theory of lemma retrieval in speaking

Language and the Internet

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15516709cog1102_5

An Incremental Procedural Grammar for Sentence Formulation

The lexicalization process in sentence production and naming: indirect election of words

https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/item_1100613_2/component/file_1100612/VanWijk_Kempen_Dual_1987.pdf

A dual system for producing self-repairs in spontaneous speech: Evidence from experimentally elicited corrections ☆

A structural analysis of an explanatory text written by a 12-year-old pupil is discussed to demonstrate how the PISA technique (the Procedures for Incremental Structural Analysis; Sanders & Van Wijk, 1996a) may contribute to the understanding of conceptual processes in writing. First, the validity of PISA is supported by showing that the hierarchical text structure corresponds with the (idiosyncratic) punctuation conventions of the writer. Then, it is explained how the writer's strategies and procedures can be reconstructed from the text structure. Evidence for the validity of these inferred cognitive plans is obtained from the distribution within the text of spelling errors, language errors, and self-corrections. Finally, the generalizability of these results is discussed together with the desirability of combining this off-line method with on-line techniques such as pause measurements.

Identifying Writing Strategies Through Text Analysis

Prosodic, lexico-syntactic and regional influences on word order in Dutch verbal endgroups

Performance structures are hierarchical representations of sentences derived from experimental data. Gee and Grosjean (1983) have shown that a set of rules based on prosodic structure, the PHI algorithm, was capable of accounting for them almost perfectly. This paper presents a psycholinguistic model that relates linguistic descriptions of prosodic structure to the mental processes of sentence formulation. In addition, it is shown that the PHI algorithm can be replaced by a considerably simpler set of rules, the PSY algorithm, with a negligible loss of predictive power. We argue, finally, that this modification is needed for independent reasons too because PHI is at variance with linguistic analyses of prosodic structure.

The PSY behind PHI: A psycholinguistic model for performance structures

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Papers

A dual system for producing self-repairs in spontaneous speech: Evidence from experimentally elicited corrections ☆

Identifying Writing Strategies Through Text Analysis

Prosodic, lexico-syntactic and regional influences on word order in Dutch verbal endgroups

The PSY behind PHI: A psycholinguistic model for performance structures

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