Presents the reader with a picture of the breadth of current research in the field. Chapters investigate all levels of the language production system and draws links between different approaches to language research.

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