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The Instrinsic of the novel "Tom Sawyer"

Chapter One
Preface


I.1 Background


Basically human is social creature. Everybody can stand alone; surely they need the other people to help each other. So, it can summarized that human is not individual creature. Human talk, writes, and gesture all human lives to communicate with others. All of human are language users and, though unaware of it, language-makers, virtually from birth to death. More than any other tools, language enables us to behave properly as human beings as language characterizes and differentiates human beings from other creatures in this world.

Language is communication devices, by language we can communicate to the other. Using language is not only for communication but also for all importance. Using language is not limited. Some people use language for entertain such as poetry, drama, novel, etc.

We use language in our daily lives for almost every purpose. We learn language from our mother since we are babies, teenage to adult it is the language we comprehend that is termed mother tongue, our first language. When a child begins to be introduced to the schooling world, he/she will find different language used by his/her teacher in classroom interactions. In their school the students will learn second language used in their study, such as; writing a letter, having conversation with other, that is different from their mother tongue.

Poetry, drama, and novel above include part of literature. So, in this opportunity writer would like to analysis the intrinsic novel of “Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain. As we know novel is a part of literature that has relevant which using language.


I.2 Research Question


In doing the research, the writer states the problem she is going to investigate. So, the writer put one question to explain the content of discussion later.
1) How the intrinsic of novel Tom Sawyer?

I.3 the Aim of Research

1) To know the intrinsic of novel Tom Sawyer

I.4 Method of Research

The writer uses several strategies to collecting data.
1) Read novel Tom Sawyer
2) Find out the intrinsic of Tom Sawyer

I.5 Paper Systematic

Preface
Content List
Chapter One Introduction
I.1 Background
I.2 Research Question
I.3 the Aim of Research
I.4 Method of Research
I.5 Paper Systematic
Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation
Chapter Three Discussion
Chapter Four Conclusion
Bibliography


Chapter Two
Theoretical Foundation

The Meaning of Novel


Novel is narrative text informing of prose with a long shape that including some figures and fiction event. According to Sumardjo, novel is a story with the prose form in long shape, this long shape means the story including the complex plot, many character and various setting (1998:29).

The Intrinsic Elements

The intrinsic elements in a novel are element that directly contribute build the story (B Nurgiyantoro 2003:23). The intrinsic elements are plot, setting characterization, message, point of view, style of writing and theme.

- Plot
According to Forster, plot is events in story that has pressure to causal relationship (1970:93). According to Stanton (1965:14) is story that contents sequence event but every event connected by causal relationship, one event cause or caused to the other events.

- Setting
Setting is place; time and social condition that become place for figures do and affected an event (B. Nurgiyantoro, 2000:75) setting will influence the action and way of thought of figures.

- Characterization
Figures that showed in a narrative work, or drama that by reader meaning have moral quality and certain tendency that expressed in utterance and action (Abrams 1981:80) called characterization.



- Point of View
Point of view is way and or opinion that used author as medium to present figures, action, setting and some events that make a story in fiction work to reader (Abrams 1981:142)

- Style of Writing
Is way of pronunciation of language in prose or how an author expressing a thing which will suggest (Abrams 190-1). According to Leech and Short, Style is the way of using language in certain context by certain author for certain purpose (1981:59).

- Theme
According to Stanton (1965:88) and Kenny (1966:20) theme is meaning that contained by a story.

- Message
Moral message can be conveyed directly by character of figures, and conveyed indirectly that message just implicit. Moral is one of theme form in a simple shape, but not all theme is moral (Kenny 1996:89)


Chapter Three
Discussion

Plot:

Exposition;
At midnight, Tom & Huck sneak into graveyard. Once there, they hear people coming and hide. Dr. Robinson arrives with Injun Joe, an evil criminal & Muff Potter. They are stealing bodies from the grave the men argue. Muff Potter is knocking out and Injun Joe murders Dr. Robinson. Tom and Huck run away, fearing for their live. When Muff Potter awakes, Injun Joe tells him that he not Injun Joe murdered the doctor.

Raising Action;
Tom & Huck show Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson. Scared, swear never tell anyone what they saw. However, Tom is bothered by the event and begins to have night mares.

Climax;
Soon enough, that ends; just in time for Muff Potter’s trial to begin Tom is still wracked with guilt about letting Muff take the blame for Injun Joe’s crime. He goes again oath & confesses what he knows to the defense attorney. He testifies in court, and Muff is freed, but not before Injun Joe escapes.

Failing Action;
Becky return to town and all the children (except Huck) go on a picnic to Mc Douglas cave while exploring, Tom & Becky get lose and left.

Conclusion;
Judge Thatcher has the door to cave sealed. When Tom find out, he tells the Judge that Injun Joe is inside but they arrive too late, and Injun Joe has starved to death.

Setting:
Place :
St. Petersburg, graveyard, haunted house, church, court, school, Mc Douglas cave, Becky’s house.
Time :
1800, summer, midnight.

Social Condition:
Moral and social maturation (As Tom begins to take initiative to help others instead of himself, he shows his increasing maturity.

Social Hypocrisy (The novel shows that adult existence is more similar to childhood existence that it might seem.

Point of View: writer as the second man.

Character:
Tom Sawyer:
Dynamic, mischievous, adventurer, active. He has an active imagination, and gets into trouble a lot. He is born to be a leader, and very head strong. Through out the book he goes to many adventures that change him.
Aunt Polly:
Monotony. Aunt Polly is religious but kindhearted. Although she fights with Tom a lot, she loves him very much and cares for his well being.
Joe Harper:
Monotony.
Becky Thatcher:
Static, main, spirited, beautiful girl
Widow Douglas:
Rich person
Huckleberry Finn:
The son of the town drank and wild boy. He doesn’t go to school, church, and any other social function.
Injun Joe:
Antagonist, hateful, cruel. The villain of the book, he is half-Indian & hateful (A criminal who steals & murders without a thought.
Judge Thatcher: Important judge.

Dr. Robinson:
Antagonist forced. A young doctor who stolen bodies from graves, until he is murdered one night by Injun Joe.
Muff Potter:
Antagonist, static, monotony, peripheral.


Theme
The Common theme of novel Tom Sawyer is friendship.

Message:
The moral messages which be found in this novel are:
1) Value of friendship
2) Criminal action is not good example for our life.


Chapter Four
Conclusion


Novel of Tom Sawyer tell about the friendship of Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer is a naughty boy. He and Huckleberry Finn went to graveyard. They saw Dr Robinson is murdered by Injun Joe. Injun Joe knew about Tom and Huck, and then catches them. Tom and Huck promised that they will never tell the case to anyone.

Tom and Huck ran away, and then Tom tells the murder. Becky return to town and all the children (except Huck) go on a picnic to Mc Douglas cave while exploring, Tom & Becky get lose and left. Judge Thatcher has the door to cave sealed. When Tom find out, he tells the Judge that Injun Joe is inside but they arrive too late, and Injun Joe has starved to death.

Bibliography

Setianingsih, Nani. 2003. A Paper “The Intrinsic Analysis to the Novel A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie. Foreign School Language Sebelas April Sumedang.
Twain, Mark. 1997. Tom Sawyer. Bridlington: Peter Haddock Ltd.
www.wikipedia.com

Fundamental Approach to Poetry

Chapter One
Introduction

I.1 Introduction

People communicate not just to convey information for business like practical reasons; they also convey feelings and attitudes. Telling a joke, passing the time in conversation and greeting old friends are some examples, and poetry is another. Some propositions including many involving values, emotions, feelings, attitudes and judgments can’t be conveyed through communicating practical information or with scientific precision. Like science, literature (and especially poetry) uses a specialized language for the purposes of precision in matters different from science.

In ordinary life, people must deal with forms of communication that use some of the methods of poetry, including editorials, sermons, political speeches, advertisements and magazine articles. Yet when approaching poems, many people confuse practical or "scientific" kinds of communication with poetic communication, sometimes as a way of justifying their interest in poetry, and so fall into certain mistakes.

One mistake is "message-hunting" looking only for a profitable statement or idea in a poem. A short prose statement can work better than a poem for communicating advice. Something else is at work in poetry.

Another mistake is thinking that poetry deals only with emotion or sensation, or even thinking that poetry can express an emotion such as grief the way tears would express it, or bring up the emotion in the reader. But poetry can never do that as well as real experience, the authors say, and a poem, such as Keats' Ode to a Nightingale, used as an example here, may really convey the poet's interpretation of an experience.

A third common mistake is an attempt to mechanically combine the first two, defining poetry as the "beautiful statement of some high truth", or "truth" with "decorations". This mistake can lead to thinking of poems as collections of pretty language pleasing for its associations with pleasant things. But even Shakespeare and Milton wrote fine passages bringing up unpleasant and disagreeable associations. The things represented don't themselves shape the poetic effect, which depends on the "kind of use the poet makes of them."

These mistakes look at poems in a mechanical way rather than in an organic way in which the elements (such as meter, rhyme, figurative language, along with attitude and emotion) need to be understood to be acting in a fundamental, intimate, organic way with each other.

The introduction also states (but doesn't develop the thought) that poems are inherently dramatic, with an implied speaker who reacts to a situation, scene or idea.

I.2 Problems
1. What are the fundamental approaches to poetry?
2. How the case example of fundamental approach to poetry?

I.3 Solve Problem Method
In this paper writer would like to use the descriptive method to solve the problem by describe the solving problem.

I.4 Systematic
Preface
Content of List
Chapter One Introduction
I.1 Introduction
I.2 Problems
I.3 Solve Problem Method
I.4 Systematic
Chapter Two Content
II.1 Fundamental Approaches to Poetry Analysis
II.2 Case Example of Fundamental Approach to Poetry Analysis
Chapter Three Conclusion
Bibliography



Chapter Two
Content

II.1 Fundamental Approaches


1. Objective
The objective approach to a poem begins with a full description of the poem’s physical or technical properties. The reader should try to elucidate the poet methods and meaning in an entirely objective way.

There should be description of the basic versification of the poem; what kind of rhyme scheme does it have? How many feet are there in each line? What kind of language does the poet use? Are there examples of alliteration, hyperbole, paradox or any other rhetorical figure and if so why the poet chosen the include them? How is the meaning of the poem conveying trough the use of this technical device?

2. Subjective
The subjective approach to a poem begins with personal interest in the poem. When one has read a poem one has encounter the statement of a certain experience. Then one wants to respond to that experience trough a consideration of one own experience. In other word a subjective respond to a poem is a molded by individual experience.

3. General
Using the general or universal approach, we make various statements about a poem in a generalized way. We direct our discussion to what general truths or feelings the poems reflect. It recurs continuously not only in poetry but in life.

4. Particular
The particular approach to a poem is the opposite of the general approach. The particular occur only once; it is unique, and thus, by definition, is never duplicated.


5. Imagery and symbolism
Most poetry can be read on several levels. The surface is not necessarily the essence of the poem, although in some cases (notably, the works of William McGonagall) there is little beyond the immediate. Allegory, connotation and metaphor are some of the subtler ways in which a poet communicates with the reader.

Before getting seduced into explorations of subtle nuance, however, the reader should establish the theme of the poem. What is the 'story' that is being told? Not the literal story but the heart of the poem. For example: Another tells of a buried child; The Destruction of Sennacherib tells of the last days of the Assyrian king; the silken tent compares a woman to a tent. Part of this involves recognizing the voice of the poem (who is speaking), and the rest of Kipling's "six honest serving men": the events in the poem; when these occur; where is the 'speaker' and where do the events occur; why does the speaker speak? William Harmon has suggested that starting an analysis with: "This poem dramatizes the conflict between …" is a key technique.

George Herbert in his poem Jordan asks if poetry must be about the imaginary. The poem opens:

Who sayes that fictions onely and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beautie?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?
May no lines passe, except they do their dutie
Not to a true, but painted chair?

He was railing against the prevalent enthusiasm for pastoral poetry above all other forms (as becomes apparent in subsequent verses). Curiously, this verse uses metaphors to challenge the use of indirect approaches to their subject. False hair and a painted chair are decorations of the mundane. The winding stair is obstructive concealment of meaning. Herbert is criticizing the overuse of allegory, symbolism or elaborate language.

For most poets—even the plain-speaking Herbert—metaphor is the fundamental means of communicating complexity succinctly. Some metaphors become so widely used that they are widely recognized symbols and these can be identified by using a specialist dictionary.

Allegorical verse uses an extended metaphor to provide the framework for the whole work. It was particularly prevalent in seventeenth century English but a more recent example is Charles Williams' The Masque of the Manuscript, in which the process of publishing is a metaphor for the search for truth. Allegories are usually readily apparent because of the heavy use of metaphor within them.

The symbolism used in a poem may not always be as overt as metaphor. Often the poet communicates emotionally by selecting words with particular connotations. For example, the word "sheen" in The Destruction of Sennacherib has stronger connotations of polishing, of human industry, than does the similar "shine". The Assyrians did not simply choose shiny metal; they worked to make it so. The word hints at a military machine.

Other tropes that may be used to increase the level of allusion include irony, litotes, simile, and metonymy (particularly synecdoche).

6. Sound, tone, diction, and connotation
Analyzing diction and connotation — the meanings of words as well as the feelings and associations they carry — is a good place to start for any poem. The use of specific words in the poem serves to create a tone an attitude taken towards the subject. For example, consider the words "slither" and "sneak." When used in a poem, the words conjure up images of a snake. The sibilant s sound reinforces the image. The connotations of the words suggest something surreptitious and undercover. From the tone, one can infer that the author is suspicious or fearful of the subject.

A detached tone or an opposite tone than the reader would expect, are sometimes purposely employed to elicit more of a response. In the opening lines of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", T. S. Eliot quickly sets a certain tone, and then creates effect by juxtaposing it with a very different tone:

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table

7. Evaluating
a final approach to analyze poetry. We have looked at poem in as many ways as possible; we should always make some kind of summarizing statement about the quality of the poem.

II.2 Case Example
"The Silken Tent" by Robert Frost
In these two examples, analytic terms are not needed to appreciate the poem; they are only needed to explain or describe the poem's effect. Sometimes, though, the reader needs a certain skill in analyzing poetry in order to appreciate the poem. If a listener doesn't know what fish tanks and military tanks are, he or she will not "get the joke" about the two fish. Similarly, sometimes a poem cannot work, cannot produce its intended effect, and cannot do what it was designed to do, unless the reader brings a certain level of analytic skill to the experience of reading it. One such poem is Robert Frost's "The Silken Tent".

"The Silken Tent" by Robert Frost
She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when a sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guys it gently sways at ease,
And its supporting central cedar pole,
That is its pinnacle to heavenward
And signifies the sureness of the soul,
Seems to owe naught to any single cord,
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound
By countless silken ties of love and thought
To everything on earth the compass round,
And only by one's going slightly taut
In the capriciousness of summer air
Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

Often, a good way to begin analyzing a poem is to reword it, putting it in one's own words, or into ordinary speech, in order to get a good grasp of the poem's content. (This is called doing a prose paraphrase.) Like Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day", this poem uses a sustained image to describe another person. Frost draws out an extended comparison between a woman and a silken tent in order to make some essential aspect of the woman's character real and available to the reader. The comparison is not to just any tent, but to a tent imagined in a very specific way. Ropes or cords draw up, become taut, when wet. In this case, the tent is imagined at midday. Any morning dew which would have soaked the tent's guy-lines has evaporated, and the ropes are now somewhat slack. The tent sways slightly in response to the wind. This imagery conveys — at a subconscious but very real and effective level — a sense that the woman being described is not tense or nervous, but is instead genial, relaxed, comfortable to be around. This does not mean, though, that she is wishy washy, someone who is blown about by every gust of fad and fashion. The tent's pole — its upright nature, its strength — conveys a sense of backbone, character, and firmness in the woman being described. In this woman's case, firmness of character does not lead to her becoming dogmatic or insistent. Rather, her character derives in part at least from her deep investment in friends, family, and community, from "countless silken ties of love and thought". Some people would experience numerous relationships and the obligations they entail as something entangling, binding, or limiting. This woman does not seem to. She seems to be very much at ease in this situation, so much so that she and those around her are only likely to be aware of their bounds and limits in unusual circumstances.

When one reads this poem aloud, rhythm and meter are much less evident, much less emphatically presented than in "The Destruction of Sennacherib". In fact, most people who hear the poem read aloud for the first time will say that it does not rhyme and it does not have any particular rhythm. Closer examination reveals that the poem does rhyme though. In fact, it rhymes in a specific pattern: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (that is, the first line rhymes with the third line (the A's), the second line rhymes with the fourth line (the B's), and so forth). But, the rhymes are much less forceful, much less emphatic and noticeable, than in Byron's poem. This is in part because Byron arranged the words such that each line ending (and therefore each rhyme) corresponds a natural pause in speech. That is, the lines end at the same places where one would pause if the lines were set as prose and one were reading the words aloud. Such lines are said to be end stopped. End stopping makes rhyme more noticeable. Frost, though, arranged at least some of the lines in "The Silken Tent" such that the line endings do not coincide with natural pauses (such as the end of line 2: someone reading the words "a sunny, summer breeze / has dried the dew" would not necessarily pause after "breeze"). This technique is called enjambment. Enjambment de-emphasizes rhyming lines.

And, there is a rhythm, albeit a rather subtle or muted one. Each line has ten syllables, and (with slight and pleasant variations) they follow a pattern of weak syllables followed by strong syllables:

has DRIED the DEW and ALL its ROPES reLENT
This pattern (weak STRONG) is called an iamb. There are five iambs to the line here: these are pentameter lines (penta- is from the Greek for "five"). The poem does have a meter: it is called iambic pentameter. Frost employs the meter with a very light touch, though, and feels free to "play around with it", briefly departing from the regular pattern as appropriate.

The whole poem is a single sentence: a single, rather long, but nonetheless conversational sounding sentence that covers fourteen lines.

So, this poem, which at first seems rather formless, in fact has a very specific structure: fourteen lines of iambic pentameter rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. There is a term for this structure: it is called the Shakespearean sonnet, and it is regarded as one of the stricter, more difficult forms. Frost is not writing a shapeless poem; he is writing within very strict rules, and in fact has raised the bar by making himself do it all in one sentence. The poem is single, long, graceful sentence that unfolds — in very relaxed, natural sounding way — within the strict boundaries of the Shakespearean sonnet form.

And — going back to the prose paraphrase — it describes a woman whose life unfolds in a very relaxed, natural way, within numerous strict boundaries. In the woman's character, as in the poem's form, one is not really aware that the boundaries are even there. The woman, like the poem, exists comfortably, naturally, easily within numerous limits and boundaries.

And this is the poem's great accomplishment: the form enacts the content; the language of the poem does what the language itself says. Though this analysis proceeded by temporarily separating form and content, the result of the analysis is the realization that in "The Silken Tent", form and content are truly inseparable: they are exact complements to each other. The effect of this poem, the work it is designed to do, is to create a sharp sense of pleasure and appreciation when one recognizes how skillfully and appropriately the poet has used the words.

In this case, a certain amount of critical terminology and analytic skill is necessary in order to appreciate the poem. If the reader does not know what a sonnet is, much less more subtle aspects of form such as enjambment, he or she will have no way to see what the poem does. He or she will have no way to "get the joke". In this case, poetry enjoyment is enabled by poetry analysis.


Chapter Three
Conclution

There are some fundamental approaches to poetry such: Objective, Subjective, General, Particural, Imagery and Symbolism, tone, ditcion conotation, and the last approach is Evaluating. These approaches have different meaning based on the reader. Each of the approach describe is helpful in each own way and ultimately a complite axplication of a poem requires that we approach it in various ways.


Bibliography

Russel Reaske, Christopher. 1966. How to Analyze Poetry. Monarch Press: New York.
www.wikipediaenclycopedia.om
www.shelfmagazine.com

Tip of the Tongue

Tip of the Tongue based on Psycholinguistic field

Chapter One
Introduction


I.1 Background
Psycholinguistic is a knowledge that learns language and psychological. There are several discussed that learn in psycholinguistic. Several discussed themselves are how language acquired it is discussed about the first human get the word and understood the meaning of the word, in this case baby.

Second is how language produces, it is discussed about the first words, phrases or sentences that produced by human. The third is how language comprehended; it is discussed about how human develops and comprehends the language. And the last is how languages lose; as we know language can be lost also it is caused by some reasons.

There are several causes that influence language can be lost. These causes are slip of the tongue, tip of the tongue, Alzheimer and other causes or diseases. These cases above interest the writer to discussed one of the cause that can make language lost; there is Tip of the Tongue (TOT).

I.2 Problems
1). what is Tip of the Tongue (TOT) and what the causes?
2). how does history of TOT?
3). what interrelation between TOT and neurobiologist?


I.3 Problems Solve Method
To answer the questions above the writer use descriptive method by describe the problems and explanations.

I.4 Systematic
Foreword
Content of List
Chapter One Introduction
I.1 Background
I.2 Problems
I.3 Problems Solve Method
I.4 Systematic
Chapter Two Content
II.1 Definition TOT and Causes TOT
II.2 History TOT
II.3 TOT and Neurobiology
Chapter Three Conclusion
Bibliography


Chapter Two
Content

II.1 Definition Tip of the Tongue (TOT) and Causes TOT
II.1.1 Definition

The tip of the tongue (TOT) phenomenon is an instance of knowing something that cannot immediately be recalled. TOT is a near-universal experience with memory recollection involving difficulty retrieving a well-known word or familiar name. When experiencing TOT, people feel that the blocked word is on the verge of being recovered. Despite failure in finding the word, people have the feeling that the blocked word is figuratively "on the tip of the tongue." Inaccessibility and the sense of imminence are two key features of an operational definition of TOTs (A.S. Brown, 1991).

- In a tip-of-the-tongue experience, you typically know quite a lot of information about the target word without being able to remember the word itself.
- Remembering often occurs sometime later, when you have stopped searching for the word.
- Often a similar sounding word seems to block your recall, but these probably don't cause your difficulty in remembering.
- TOTs probably occur because of there is a weak connection between the meaning and the sound of a word.
- Connections are weak when they haven't been used frequently or recently
- Aging may also weaken connections.
- TOTs do occur more frequently as we age.
- In general, this increase in TOTs with age is seen in poorer recall of names (proper names and names of things). Abstract words do not become harder to recall with age.
- Keeping your experience of language diverse (e.g., playing scrabble, doing crosswords) may help reduce TOTs.

II.1.2 Causes TOT
It has been thought that these interfering words cause the TOTs, but some researchers now believe they’re a consequence rather than a cause. Because you have part of the sounds of the word you’re searching for, your hard-working brain, searching for words that have those sounds, keeps coming up with the same, wrong, words.
A recent study by Dr Lori James of the University of California and Dr Deborah Burke of Pomona College suggests a different cause.
How are words held in memory? A lot of emphasis has been placed on the importance of semantic information — the meaning of words. But it may be that the sound of a word is as important as its meaning.
Words contain several types of information, including:
- Semantic information (meaning),
- Lexical information (letters), and
- Phonological information (sound).
These types of information are held in separate parts of memory. They are connected of course, so that when, for example, you read Velcro, the letter information triggers the connected sound information and the connected meaning information, telling you how to pronounce the word and what it means.
When you try to think of a word, as opposed to being given it, you generally start with the meaning (“that sticky stuff that has fuzz on one side and tiny hooks on the other”). If the connection between that meaning and the sound information is not strong enough, the sound information won’t be activated strongly enough to allow you to retrieve all of it.
Drs James and Burke think that TOTs occur because of weak connections between the meaning and the sound of a word.
Connections are strengthened when they’re used a lot. They are also stronger when they’ve just been used. If you haven’t used a connection for a while, it will weaken. It may also be that aging weakens connections.
This may explain why the errant word suddenly “pops up”. It may be that you have experienced a similar sound to the target word.

II.2 History Tip of the Tongue
The experience of TOT appeared in non-academic literature as early as 1885. Anton Chekhov's short story "A Horsey Name" is about the main character's tip-of-the-tongue experience involving a surname. In 1890, pioneering psychologist William James discussed the phenomenon in his text The Principles of Psychology. James described the TOT state as "a gap that is intensely active".
In 1966, Harvard psychologists Roger Brown and David McNeill reported the first empirical investigation of the tip-of-the-tongue state. They recounted, "He signs of it were unmistakable" and "he [a research participant] would appear to be in mild torment, something like on the brink of a sneeze, and if he found the word his relief was considerable." They also found that TOT is a fairly universal phenomenon; TOTs occur about once a week and increase as you age, and they're often caused by proper names. Further, people experiencing TOT are often able to access the first letter of the "target word" fairly accurately and they also bring up words related to the "target word." Finally, R. Brown and McNeill have some good news: target words are retrieved during the experience of a TOT phenomenon about half of the time (A.S. Brown, 1991).
Although it is not explicitly called by this name it is interesting to note that TOT is briefly considered by Aristotle in "On Memory and Reminiscence", in his discussion on recollection.

II.3 Tip of the Tongue and Neurobiologist

Neural basis of TOT
The anterior cingulate and right middle frontal cortices are two neural areas implicated in the TOT phenomenon. One study showed that, relative to successful retrieval or unsuccessful retrieval not accompanied by a TOT, retrieval failures accompanied by TOTs elicited a selective response in anterior cingulate-prefrontal cortices. The study also found that while attempting to retrieve information, subjects rely heavily on visual spatial clues in correctly retrieving the information. For example, some subjects in the study that were trying to recall a name described looking at the person's face in attempting to retrieve the name. Also, when trying to recall the name of an author, the subjects described attempting to read the name of the author from an imagined book. The authors of the study suggest that "the extent that the subjects in our fMRI study used a visual imagery strategy when in a TOT condition; the activation observed in right inferior PFC could constitute the neural correlates of these efforts to resolve this retrieval.
Human Cerebrum

Frontal lobe
Temporal lobe
Parietal lobe
Occipital lobe

Lobes of the human cerebrum. The temporal lobe (green) and frontal lobe (blue)are thought to play an important role in speech

Three stage neural network model

Simplified view of an artificial neural network
One theory of why the tip of the tongue phenomenon occurs comes from Petro Gopych (2001), a professor at the Kharkiv National University. Gopych’s model proposes three stages in word recall process.
1. Word node selection
o This first stage involves actually selecting which word we are trying to recall. When specifying the word, we identify the learned artificial neural network (ANN) which contains information about the target word, and then activate that part.
2. Word retrieval
o According to Gopych, free recall exhibits positive and negative outputs randomly in the learned ANN. When trying to recall a specific word, otherwise known as cued recall, the retrieval process depicts a “spike” of these outputs with a fixed part of the true information (specific word). The result of attempts to retrieve the word from the learned ANN is an output of positive and negative units.
3. Comparison of patterns
o The pattern of outputs determined by the retrieval attempts is compared to a reference pattern from metamemory. If the sample pattern matches the reference pattern, the searching stops because the word that was searched for is recalled. If there is no match, the retrieval process (stage 2) starts over again and a pattern of outputs enters the ANN. This continues until the reference pattern is detected or the process is stopped independently.
Gopych believes that the problem in recalling a specified word comes from a damaged ANN. He suggests that the stored semantic information is damaged or incompletely selected. The severity of the damage determines the power of the TOT.
Gopych’s three stage neural network theory can be used to explain many aspects of TOT including semantic priming, immediate, delay, or eventually full TOT resolution, age dependence in TOTs, recollection of the first letter of the target word, and many more. Using the number of attempts of memory retrieval, the duration of time intervals between successive sets of spikes, and the duration of single neuron spikes, the retrieval chronometry can be determined. Gopych’s theory also supports Tulving’s challenge to the doctrine of concordance.


Chapter Three
Conclusion


The tip of the tongue (TOT) phenomenon is an instance of knowing something that cannot immediately be recalled. TOT is a near-universal experience with memory recollection involving difficulty retrieving a well-known word or familiar name. When experiencing TOT, people feel that the blocked word is on the verge of being recovered.

The experience of TOT appeared in non-academic literature as early as 1885. Anton Chekhov's short story "A Horsey Name" is about the main character's tip-of-the-tongue experience involving a surname. In 1890, pioneering psychologist William James discussed the phenomenon in his text The Principles of Psychology. James described the TOT state as "a gap that is intensely active".



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