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From sentence production to text production: Investigating fundamental processes

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The purpose of the present article is to present a nom exhaustive review about the cognitive psychology research in english and in french language, dealing with the study of the organization and the functioning of the oral and written language production mechanisms.

The article includes two sections. The first section reports the works dealing with the microstructural aspects of language. Oral production is mainly concerned. This part describes how research perspective has evolved from the modular models to the connectionist models during the last years.

The second section is rather concerned with the written production and with macrostructural aspects of the production: planification, transcription, reviewing.

The conclusion tries to point out convergences in a research perspective to be developed.

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Fayol, M. From sentence production to text production: Investigating fundamental processes. Eur J Psychol Educ 6, 101–119 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03191929

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