The length of time

it takes between the initial puff of air that begins the consonant sounds and

the onset of voicing in the throat that initiates any vowel sound which follows

the consonants.

At the one

word speech stage children can use single words to express thoughts for which

mature speakers will use a whole sentence.

In the theories of grammar syntactic

structure of a sentence is often expressed in the form of a Proposition.

The stage of language production when the words

and phrases are translated into sounds and syllables of actual speech and given

a phonological frame.

Comprehension involves a dynamic, growing, and

active process of searching for relevant relationships in spreading activation

networks.

An early stage of language

acquisition similar to cooing where infants produce a few, and somewhat random,

consonants

Psycholinguistic theories of language

production claim that speakers lack intuitive sensitivity to what stage of

production process goes wrong, if indeed a speech error is made and are

incapable of readjusting a message at the stages of production.

Scientific areas or subfields of

general psycholinguistics are

The principle of UG theory which

claims that moving elements from one place to another depends upon the phrase

structure, not upon the linear order of words.

The syntactic structure of the sentence which a

person speaks, hears, reads or writes.