Lecturer's Précis - Lordat (1843)

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First published 10:00 GMT 28th October 2003

Although this paper is reasonably self-contained, it is best read as a subordinate file to our e-paper on "Speech Errors and Speech Production Models". An earlier version of this material appeared in Smith (1997; Chapter 6). It is repeated here with a colour-coded graphic and supported with hyperlinks.

Lordat's (1843) Stages of Sentence Production

The French army surgeon, Jacques Lordat (1773-1870) was one of the first to analyse speech production as a succession of processing stages. He identified five main stages as shown diagrammatically below .....

Lordat's "Boxology": This is Lecours, Nespoulos, and Pioger's (1987) rendering into block diagram form of Lordat's (1843) analysis of the stages of the speech production process. Five processing stages are identified. Stage 1 shows ideas emerging from the process(es) of thinking in general, and being "isolated" in readiness for utterance. Stages 2 to 4 show the progressive internal preparations of a syntactically precise output sentence, and Stage 5 shows the final delivery of that sentence as sounds. Note that Stage 5 consists of three separate subprocesses, thus drawing attention to the need to identify the physical processing modules as well as the processes themselves on this sort of diagram.

Developed from a black and white original in Lecours, Nespoulos, and Pioger (1987, p8), but with colour coding added. This version Copyright © 2003, Derek J. Smith.

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