言语产生过程可分为概念化、言语组织、发音3个层次。这个过程的核心是词汇通达,它包含词条选择(语义提取)和音位编码(语音提取)两个阶段。对于这两个加工阶段的关系主要有两种观点:一种是独立两阶段模型,一种是交互激活理论。汉语言语产生研究的主要范式是图片命名。独立两阶段模型和交互激活理论各有一些来自汉语言语产生的行为实验和认知神经实验的证据支持。汉语的活动有其独特的脑区。
Language production could be distinguished in three stages: conceptualization, formulation and articulation. Lexical access was the core process, which consists of lexical selection (semantic retrieval) and phonetic encoding (phonological retriev- al). There were two views on the relationship between these two processes: one was discrete stage model and the other was two -step interactive activation model. Picture naming was a classical paradigm used in many studies on Chinese language production. Each model had been sustained by many researches of the evidence from the behaviour studies and the cognitive neuroscience studies of Chinese language production. And there was particular brain regions in the processing of Chinese activation.