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...

This edited work addresses key issues concerning the relationship between linguistic/non-linguistic processes, including: how can the degree of automaticity of a component be defined? And, which linguistic processes are truly automatic? This book is useful for researchers and students in the area of language processing.