Language comprehension is

strongly influenced by even the slightest of changes

in discourse which the listener is attending to.

The capacity to acquire one’s first

language.

A very important observation that was made out

of the research into slips of the tongue was that speech errors involve only

‘mixing and matching’ phonemes within words.

According to D. McNeill a mode of thought which

creates the sequence of syllables, words, phrases, and sentences that together

make up speech.

Specific information which the speakers bring

to any new situation based on theirr accumulated experience with similar

situations which assists the lexical search process.

Rules of the

Transformational component are

A kind of crying when a child uses

sounds as indirect manifestation of increasingly complex internal feelings

According to logogen model of comprehension high-frequency words have very high

thresholds of activation and take longer to be incorporated into a system of

understanding.

At the final level of production that of

self-monitoring performance monitors competence to ensure that our production

is accurate.

A phenomenon in the comprehension of sentences

that the sequence of words tends to create in listeners or readers a certain

expectation about their meaning.