Willem J M Levelt
Biographic Data
| ID | 742537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willem J M Levelt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willem J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Levelt |
| SIGNATURE | LEVELT W J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Becoming a Physicist of Mind
In 1976, the German Max Planck Society established a new research enterprise in psycholinguistics, which became the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. I was fortunate enough to be invited to direct this institute. It enabled me, with my background in visual and auditory psychophysics and the theory of formal grammars and automata, to develop a long-term chronometric endeavor to dissect the process of speaking…
Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics: Volume 1: An Introduction to the Theory of Formal Languages and Automata, Volume 2: Applications in Linguistic Theory, Volume 3: Psycholinguistic …
Almost four decades have passed since Formal Grammars first appeared in 1974. At that time it was still possible to rather comprehensively review for (psycho)linguists the relevant literature on the theory of formal languages and automata, on their applications in linguistic theory and in the psychology of language. That is no longer feasible. In all three areas developments have been substantial, if not breathtaking. Nowadays, an interested ling…
Gesture and the communicative intention of the speaker
This paper aims to determine whether iconic tracing gestures produced while speaking constitute part of the speaker’s communicative intention. We used a picture description task in which speakers must communicate the spatial and color information of each picture to an interlocutor. By establishing the necessary minimal content of an intended message, we determined whether speech produced with concurrent gestures is less explicit than speech witho…
The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components
Speech, gesture and the origins of language
During the second half of the 19th century, the psychology of language was invented as a discipline for the sole purpose of explaining the evolution of spoken language. These efforts culminated in Wilhelm Wundt's monumental Die Sprache of 1900, which outlined the psychological mechanisms involved in producing utterances and considered how these mechanisms could have evolved. Wundt assumes that articulatory movements were originally rather arbitra…
Stem Complexity and Inflectional Encoding in Language Production
The Acquisition of Syllable Types
In this article, we present an account of developmental data regarding the acquisition of syllable types. The data come from a longitudinal corpus of phonetically transcribed speech of 12 children acquiring Dutch as their first language. A developmental order of acquisition of syllable types was deduced by aligning the syllabified data on a Guttman scale. This order could be analyzed as following from an initial ranking and subsequent rerankings …
A theory of lexical access in speech production
Advanced Psycholinguistics: A Bressanone Retrospective for Giovanni D. Flores d'Arcais
The Genetic Perspective in Psycholinguistics or Where Do Spoken Words Come From
The Syllabic Structure of Spoken Words: Evidence from the Syllabification of Intervocalic Consonants
A series of experiments was carried out to investigate the syllable affiliation of intervocalic consonants following short vowels, long vowels, and schwa in Dutch. Special interest was paid to words such as letter [l∊[UNKNOWN]t] “id.,” where a short vowel is followed by a single consonant. On phonological grounds one may predict that the first syllable should always be closed, but earlier psycholinguistic research had shown that speakers tend to …
The ability to speak: From intentions to spoken words
In recent decades, psychologists have become increasingly interested in our ability to speak. This paper sketches the present theoretical perspective on this most complex skill of homo sapiens . The generation of fluent speech is based on the interaction of various processing components. These mechanisms are highly specialized, dedicated to performing specific subroutines, such as retrieving appropriate words, generating morpho-syntactic structur…
The perceptual loop theory not disconfirmed: A reply to MacKay
Fairness in reviewing: A reply to O'Connell
Exploring the time course of lexical access in language production: Picture-word interference studies
Speaking: From Intention to Articulation
Speaking: From Intention to Articulation
In Speaking, Willem "Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from constraints on conversational appropriateness to articulation and self-monitoring of speech. Speaking is unique in its balanced coverage of all major aspects of the production of speech, in the completeness of its treatment of the entire speech process, and in its st…
Zur sprachlichen Abbildung des Raumes: Deiktische und intrinsische Perspektive
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Monitoring and self-repair in speech
Prosodic Marking in Speech Repair
Spontaneous self-corrections in speech pose a communication problem; the speaker must make clear to the listener not only that the original utterance was faulty, but where it was faulty and how the fault is to be corrected. Prosodic marking of corrections - making the prosody of the repair noticeably different from that of the original utterance - offers a resource which the speaker can exploit to provide the listener with such information. A cor…
Crossing the Boundaries in Linguistics: Studies Presented to Mantred Bierwisch
Surface form and memory in question answering
La Frontière Du Mot En Francais
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Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, Volume 3, Psycholinguistic Applications
A psycholinguistic study of phonological inteference
The Syllabic Structure of Spoken Words: Evidence from the Syllabification of Intervocalic Consonants
A series of experiments was carried out to investigate the syllable affiliation of intervocalic consonants following short vowels, long vowels, and schwa in Dutch. Special interest was paid to words such as letter [l∊[UNKNOWN]t] “id.,” where a short vowel is followed by a single consonant. On phonological grounds one may predict that the first syllable should always be closed, but earlier psycholinguistic research had shown that speakers tend to …
Gesture and the communicative intention of the speaker
This paper aims to determine whether iconic tracing gestures produced while speaking constitute part of the speaker’s communicative intention. We used a picture description task in which speakers must communicate the spatial and color information of each picture to an interlocutor. By establishing the necessary minimal content of an intended message, we determined whether speech produced with concurrent gestures is less explicit than speech witho…
The ability to speak: From intentions to spoken words
In recent decades, psychologists have become increasingly interested in our ability to speak. This paper sketches the present theoretical perspective on this most complex skill of homo sapiens . The generation of fluent speech is based on the interaction of various processing components. These mechanisms are highly specialized, dedicated to performing specific subroutines, such as retrieving appropriate words, generating morpho-syntactic structur…
Speech, gesture and the origins of language
During the second half of the 19th century, the psychology of language was invented as a discipline for the sole purpose of explaining the evolution of spoken language. These efforts culminated in Wilhelm Wundt's monumental Die Sprache of 1900, which outlined the psychological mechanisms involved in producing utterances and considered how these mechanisms could have evolved. Wundt assumes that articulatory movements were originally rather arbitra…
The Alternation Process in Binocular Rivalry
Alternation frequency in binocular rivalry and relative dominance of stimuli in the right and left eyes are described in terms of an alternation model. The model is based on the assumption that the mean duration of the dominance of the stimulus in one eye is independent of the strength of this stimulus; the duration is assumed to be dependent only upon the strength of the stimulus in the contralateral eye. A provisional definition of stimulus str…
Tonal Consonance and Critical Bandwidth
Firstly, theories are reviewed on the explanation of tonal consonance as the singular nature of tone intervals with frequency ratios corresponding with small integer numbers. An evaluation of these explanations in the light of some experimental studies supports the hypothesis, as promoted by von Helmholtz, that the difference between consonant and dissonant intervals is related to beats of adjacent partials. This relation was studied more fully b…
Binocular Brightness Averaging and Contour Information
Binocular brightness averaging has been investigated under two conditions: with identical contour information in both eyes and with different contour information. Equibrightness curves are presented for the simple case, in which right and left test fields are identical in pattern but different in luminance. These curves are for the most part linear; i.e. if the weighted sum of left and right luminance is constant, the same binocular brightness im…
The Alternation Process in Binocular Rivalry
Alternation frequency in binocular rivalry and relative dominance of stimuli in the right and left eyes are described in terms of an alternation model. The model is based on the assumption that the mean duration of the dominance of the stimulus in one eye is independent of the strength of this stimulus; the duration is assumed to be dependent only upon the strength of the stimulus in the contralateral eye. A provisional definition of stimulus str…
Note on the Distribution of Dominance Times in Binocular Rivalry
The dominance periods of a stimulus in binocular rivalry show a characteristic time distribution that gives important clues as to the underlying mechanism in alternation. It is shown that the distribution can be approximated by a γ‐function, which turns out to have a positive integral exponent. With an integral exponent the function describes a Poisson distribution. This suggests the existence of an underlying dominance generating process that is…
Psychologie der sprache
A psycholinguistic study of phonological inteference
Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, Volume 3, Psycholinguistic Applications
La Frontière Du Mot En Francais
Preview this article: La Frontière Du Mot En Francais, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/sl.1.2.04zwa-1.gif
Surface form and memory in question answering
Monitoring and self-repair in speech
Prosodic Marking in Speech Repair
Spontaneous self-corrections in speech pose a communication problem; the speaker must make clear to the listener not only that the original utterance was faulty, but where it was faulty and how the fault is to be corrected. Prosodic marking of corrections - making the prosody of the repair noticeably different from that of the original utterance - offers a resource which the speaker can exploit to provide the listener with such information. A cor…
Crossing the Boundaries in Linguistics: Studies Presented to Mantred Bierwisch
Zur sprachlichen Abbildung des Raumes: Deiktische und intrinsische Perspektive
n Contains fulltext :\n 5653.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Speaking: From Intention to Articulation
In Speaking, Willem "Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from constraints on conversational appropriateness to articulation and self-monitoring of speech. Speaking is unique in its balanced coverage of all major aspects of the production of speech, in the completeness of its treatment of the entire speech process, and in its st…
Exploring the time course of lexical access in language production: Picture-word interference studies
Speaking: From Intention to Articulation
The perceptual loop theory not disconfirmed: A reply to MacKay
Fairness in reviewing: A reply to O'Connell
The ability to speak: From intentions to spoken words
In recent decades, psychologists have become increasingly interested in our ability to speak. This paper sketches the present theoretical perspective on this most complex skill of homo sapiens . The generation of fluent speech is based on the interaction of various processing components. These mechanisms are highly specialized, dedicated to performing specific subroutines, such as retrieving appropriate words, generating morpho-syntactic structur…
The Syllabic Structure of Spoken Words: Evidence from the Syllabification of Intervocalic Consonants
A series of experiments was carried out to investigate the syllable affiliation of intervocalic consonants following short vowels, long vowels, and schwa in Dutch. Special interest was paid to words such as letter [l∊[UNKNOWN]t] “id.,” where a short vowel is followed by a single consonant. On phonological grounds one may predict that the first syllable should always be closed, but earlier psycholinguistic research had shown that speakers tend to …
Advanced Psycholinguistics: A Bressanone Retrospective for Giovanni D. Flores d'Arcais
The Genetic Perspective in Psycholinguistics or Where Do Spoken Words Come From
A theory of lexical access in speech production
The Acquisition of Syllable Types
In this article, we present an account of developmental data regarding the acquisition of syllable types. The data come from a longitudinal corpus of phonetically transcribed speech of 12 children acquiring Dutch as their first language. A developmental order of acquisition of syllable types was deduced by aligning the syllabified data on a Guttman scale. This order could be analyzed as following from an initial ranking and subsequent rerankings …
The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components
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