This volume represents major research issues in language production today, presenting readers with a picture of the breadth of current research in the field. Contributors have focused on models of visual word processing, aphasic speech, object recognition and language production in children. Many chapters highlight the need for psychological models of language production to learn from theoretical linguistics in order to become better informed about the structure of language itself. Therefore, this volume also includes chapters written by linguists for psychologists which serve to remind us of the complexity of structure and process in the languages of the world.

List of contributors, Series preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Producing words: How mind meets mouth, 3 Form representations in word production, 4 WEAVER++ and other computational models of lemma retrieval and word-form encoding, 5 When the words won't come: Relating impairments and models of spoken word production, 6 On the naming of objects: Evidence from cognitive neuroscience, 7 Phonology: Structure, representation, and process, 8 Morphological systems and structure in language production, 9 Generating prosodic structure, 10 Language production in children, 11 Syntax in language production: An approach using tree-adjoining grammars, 12 Conceptual structures in language production, 13 Coordinating spontaneous talk, Author index, Subject index