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Models of speech production must contain specific
elements to be viable. These include the elements from which

speech is composed, listed below. The accepted models of
speech production discussed in more detail below all incorporate

these stages either explicitly or implicitly, and the ones that are
now outdated or disputed have been criticized for overlooking
one or more of the following stages.

The attributes of accepted speech models are:
a. A conceptual stage where the speaker abstractly
identifies what they wish to express.

b. A syntactic stage where a frame is chosen that words will
be placed into, this frame is usually sentence structure.

c. A lexical stage where a search for a word occurs based on
meaning. Once the word is selected and retrieved,
information about it becomes available to the speaker

involving phonology and morphology.
d. A phonological stage where the abstract information is

converted into a speech like form.
e. A phonetic stage where instructions are prepared to be
sent to the muscles of articulation. Also, models must

allow for forward planning mechanisms, a buffer, and a
monitoring mechanism.

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