The Process of Retrieving Words

E.    When we said or written something, the word (sentence) that we need in general just came out automatically  as if without passing through any process. As well when our act as speaker or listener, we will understand easily what our opposite said to us. Indeed, this process seems natural but when we think or try to understand deeply it needs long process because we should know the base of the word first.

There are three processes of retrieve word:

a.       Sound determining intuitively

Intuitive process is the process of understanding word automatically. It means that the word has accomplished the condition of speaker’s or listener’s language. Such as word “pen”, when people address us a thing used to write and the inside of the thing is ink than leave print in the other think which they write, and it’s asked to them what is that?. Without any thinking listener will guesses that it is a pen.

b.      Features collection

This process has link to the characteristic of things, such as color, size, shape, and function, etc. all people have view of the object in the word. For example Car fire, it has certain features and one of them is color. When people said that where the car fire is, the listener will assume that the car fire is red but people be confuse when people said the car fire which is yellow color .

c.       Comparison with other things

This process should compare with other things that have similarities and differences between two things; such as pen and pencil, both are has similar sharp and the same function.  Otherwise they have differences, pen is not easy to erase while pencil is easy to erase.

d.      Selecting things

People should choose similar things that fulfill any requirements. This process needs much time to get understanding of the word because it requires process of elimination. For example pencil has process requirement, but the real physical form of the pencil is ink.