NIH R01 · 2024
Multi-Utterance Language Production
To tell a story, give directions, or describe the layout of a house, speakers must generate multiple utterances in sequence. Because most psycholinguistic research on speaking is based on paradigms designed to elicit single utterances, little is known about multi-utterance language production in children and adults. Linked to this empirical focus on single utterances is the widespread use of a method in which subjects describe simple visual images containing just a handful of objects shown in straightforward spatial arrangements. In contrast, real world scenes contain multiple objects in various relationships that can be described in numerous ways, and so the attentional and language…
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