Production, comprehension, and synthesis: a communicative perspective on language

摘要

MacDonald (2013) presents a strong case for speech production having a pivotal role in the cognition of language processing. Experimental research has been strongly biased toward the study of language comprehension, and it is an intellectual pleasure to be invited to rethink the consequences of the constraints imposed by speech production on both the form of utterances and how utterances are produced and understood.