production (n.)

The general sense of this term is found in PHONETICS and PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, where it refers to the process of planning and executing the act of SPEECH. The study of speech production includes not only the neuroanatomical and neurophysiological activities involved in speaking, but also the construction and testing of MODELS of the neural control system in the brain’s organization of speech. A particular strategy is to analyze certain characteristics of speech output (e.g. PAUSE, TONGUE-SLIPS, DYNAMIC features), as a means of inferring the properties of this system. Production is usually contrasted with speech PERCEPTION and COMPREHENSION.