To produce a sentence, speakers must first prepare a preverbal message and then encode it linguistically. First a speaker has an intention to utter a communicative statement, which than has to...Show moreTo produce a sentence, speakers must first prepare a preverbal message and then encode it linguistically. First a speaker has an intention to utter a communicative statement, which than has to become a decision about what information to express (Levelt,1999). When all the syntactic properties, the lexical selection and phonological and phonetic encoding have been planned, the speaker can utter its intended statement. The aim of the present project is to investigate the preparation of utterances within particular discourse context, i.e. utterances which provide new information to the preceding context, defined here as informational focus and sentences with corrective focus.Show less