i always imagine brains like this
the process by which people turn the thoughts that underlie their words into sounds.
This process includes at least two stages, one being lexical representation, where there are units that correspond to words.
“According to the best known lemma theory, each word is represented by a lemma. Lemmas are specified syntactically and semantically but not [yet] phonologically. The stage of specifying in a pre-phonological, abstract way the word that we are just about to say is called ‘lemma selection’ “
hohoho there. psycholinguistic evidence that i am the thoughts in your head that are not yet words. I am apparently accompanied by an L
EDIT: whoopsie! forgot to cite, sorry harley you know i <3 ewe
*the above quote is hereby credited solely to:
- The Psychology of Language, Trevor A. Harley
did you see that? I did a performative speech act! :o
