Spontaneous speech as a feedback process

This paper explores some minimum requirements for a sentence generating program that claims psychological plausibility, in that it can exhibit the dysfluencies that characterize the spontaneous speaker. A monitor is used to compare what the speaker says, with what he intends to say. To this end a feedback loop is introduced which contains a parser. The research reported here is based on empirical evidence in the literature. The implementation is an effort to use the AI paradigm for theory building in psychology.