ABSTRACT
How is speech produced and understood in the context of everyday communication? This is the central problem for psycholinguistics and the focus of this book. Every communicative act involves at least four components:
something to be communicated, such as an idea or a thought;
a speaker’s intention to transmit that idea or thought to someone else;
a message in the form of speech which represents that idea or thought;
a listener who intends to comprehend the message and who interprets that message.
