Speaker:　Prof. Niels O. Schiller 
　　　　　 Professor of Psycho- and NeuroLinguistics
　　　　　 Leiden University Institute for Linguistics (LUCL)
　　　　　 Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC)
　　　　　 Leiden University
Time:　　1:30-3:00pm
Date:　　Jun 5th(wed), 2013
Venue: 　6th Floor Meeting Room, South Building IPCAS
Abstract: 
The language production process is markedly characterized by different stages of planning (ahead). Conceptual, grammatical and phonological planning need to run in parallel to ensure fluent speech production. One (set of) process(es) that has attracted a lot of attention in last two decades is phonological encoding. It has been shown, for instance, that segmental and prosodic encoding exhibit an incremental time course, that prefab speech units such as syllables may be stored and accessed separately, and that consonants and vowels fulfill different roles in speech production due to their different features. I will provide cross-linguistic data about phonological encoding from a number of non-western languages demonstrating different functional units of phonological encoding such as segments, syllables and mora’s in typologically different languages. Furthermore, I will provide electrophysiological data on phonological encoding in first- and second-language word production from such diverse languages as Persian and Russian.