<P> a) a conceptual stage where the speaker abstractly identifies what they wish to express . </P> <P> b) a syntactic stage where a frame is chosen that words will be placed into, this frame is usually sentence structure . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> d) a phonological stage where the abstract information is converted into a speech like form . </P>

The behavior that produces vocal sounds is called