Speech production:: Phonetic encoding of real and non-words

The work presented in this paper was partly supported by the Grant Agency of Czech Republic under contract number 201/02/1553. This paper reports an investigation of the production of real and non-words in two normal speaker groups. Group 2 consists of 10 young people - 5 women and 5 men (mean age 23 years) and group 2 consists of 5 older women and 5 older men(mean age 52 years). All speakers were had no speech, language or hearing difficulties. The speech material used in study consisted of two repetitions of 10 real, 10 pseudo-real and 10 non-words. The speech data were subsequently digitized (16 KHz) and the following were measured: response latency, utterance duration and duration. The results are presented and discussed within a dual-route model of speech production.