A. K. M.
Mazharul Islam
King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi
Arabia
Abstract
We are
usually not aware of the process of speaking, as we are unconscious of our
breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide; as if they are automatic
and effortless. We become conscious of our breathing only when we gasp for a
little air and likewise, fumbling for the right word very often makes us aware
of our speaking. Surprising facts about speaking are there. A chain of subtle
and intricate activities takes place within moments. The starting is in our
brain where the message is conceptualized, and then in the in physiological
level, the message travels through the nervous system and finally in the
physical level, the message is passed to the articulatory speech organs to
produce sounds. In this writing, we shall see how the messages are formed and
monitored in a preverbal state and how those messages receive phonological and
grammatical encoding following some phonetic plan. Various stages and features
of speaking and the role of long and short term memory are also dealt here.
This writing will hopefully facilitate the interested learners of the phonetics
and psycholinguistics.
Keywords:
speaking, the intricate and voluntary process of
speech, the location of speech in the human brain, conceptualizer, formulator,
articulators, grammatical and phonological encoding of speech, self-correction,
pause and other features of speech.
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