COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION IN EARLY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Comprehension and Production in Early Language Development: Comments on Savage-rumbaugh Et Al

Language Comprehension and Production in Normal Aging

Since Cohen introduced the term ‘‘gerolinguistics’’ in 1979, there has been accelerating interest in understanding the nature of language in old age. Searching PsychINFO using the key words ‘‘language and aging’’ generated 9 citations for the decade from 1970 to 1979, 80 for 1980 to 1989, 270 for 1990 to 1999, and 171 for the 5-year period from 2000 to 2004. This surge in interest in language a...

Language as skill: Intertwining comprehension and production

Are comprehension and production a single, integrated skill, or are they separate processes drawing on a shared abstract knowledge of language? We argue that a fundamental constraint on memory, the Now-or-Never bottleneck, implies that language processing is incremental and that language learning occurs on-line. These properties are difficult to reconcile with the ‘abstract knowledge’ viewpoint...

Production/comprehension Asymmetries in Language Acquisition

The theme of this Special Issue is asymmetries in language acquisition, and the contributions present evidence for either the presence or the absence of a production/comprehension asymmetry in child language. The authors focus on various areas of linguistics, ranging from phonology and syntax to semantics and pragmatics, using a variety of empirical methods. Although the contributions do not ag...

Overview: does language production shape language form and comprehension?

Analyzing how predictability, especially statistically-based predictability, affects language comprehension has become a major theme in psycholinguistics (e.g., Jurafsky, 1996; Hale, 2001; Lau et al., 2006; Staub and Clifton, 2006; Levy, 2008). This interest can be traced back to a series of papers (notably MacDonald et al., 1994) challenging the received claim that frequency is largely irrelev...