Phonological encoding in speech production: Comments on Jurafsky et al., Schiller et al., and van Heuven & Haan

Abstract

What is phonological encoding? An introductory answer to this question may be helpful for a discussion of the papers in the present section. The term 'phonological encoding' has multiple uses, as Pat Keating signaled during the meeting from which this book stems in her introductory presentation: it can denote the encoding by phonology or the encoding of phonology. In the reading literature, for instance, the standard use of the term is this: 'Phonological encoding is writing a letter or word based on its sounds' i.e., the encoding of phonology by orthographic units. This is not the topic of the present section. The other use of the term, encoding of phonology was introduced in my book Speaking (1989). After a discussion of grammatical encoding, phonological encoding was introduced as follows: