Title: Structure building in speaking
Abstract: Speakers build syntactic structures so they can avoid producing gibberish, at least most of the time. But how speakers build syntactic structures in sentence production remains poorly understood. In this talk, I discuss our recent series of studies on how speakers build structural representations in real-time sentence production, examining the production of sentences involving raising, control, tough constructions, wh-extractions, across-the-board extractions, and parasitic gaps. Building on the experimental results, I introduce a preliminary model of structure building in speaking based on the Tree-Adjoining-Grammar formalism.