MoLE (version 1.0.1)

FIRSTINFIRSTOUT: Order constituents by activation

Description

If incremental production is assumed (cf. world), constituents are produced in order of activation.

Usage

FIRSTINFIRSTOUT(speakerID, proposition)

Arguments

speakerID

Pointer to speaker who's formulating an utterance

proposition

The proposition to be uttered and whose constituents are reordered.

Value

a proposition, i.e. a list:

external

representation of the external argument

internal

representation of the internal argument, if identified

verb

representation of the action argument

target

target event to be described

References

Balota, D. A. & Chumbley, J. I. (1985). The locus of word-frequency in the pronunciation task: Lexical access and/or production? Journal of memory and languages, 24, 89-106.

Bock, K., and Levelt, W.J.M. (1994). Language production. Grammatical encoding. IN M.A. Gernsbacher (Ed.). Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp.741-779). New York: Academic Press

See Also

PREPARE

Examples

# NOT RUN {
FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
(proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation))
FIRSTINFIRSTOUT(speakerID, proposition)
# }