Judith Leitermann 
Summary of the presentation of Gary S. Dell’s ‘Spreading-Activation Theory of Retrieval in Sentence Production’ [PDF ebook] 

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies — Linguistics, grade: 1, 7, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), course: Language Production, language: English, abstract: In Gary S. Dell’s article ”A Spreading-Activation Theory of Retrieval in Sentence Production” which was published in Volume 93 of the Psychological Review in 1986, he analyses the production of language which is “the least studied and the least understood” by psycholinguistics. The former research concerning the production of language is not sufficient in Dell’s opinion. Dell’s theory tries to make predictions that can be fitted to models.