This volume comprises contributions from different disciplines (cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, neuroscience) concerned with the generation of natural speech. It summarizes the outcome of a six-year long priority program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) that aimed at bringing together colleagues with different viewpoints but sharing a principal interest in the cognitive processes underlying language production. The result is a state-of-the-art discussion of one of the most fascinating branches of human behavior taking into account a particularly rich multidisciplinary empirical data base.

Thomas Pechmannand Christopher HabelPreface Merrill GarrettIntroduction Gerhard Blanken, Florian Kulke, Britta Biedermann, Tobias Bormann, Jürgen Dittmann, and Claus-W. WalleschThe dissolution of word production in aphasia: Implications for normal functions Jens Bölte, Pienie Zwitserlood, and Petra DohmesMorphology in experimental speech production research Mary Carroll, Christiane von Stutterheim, and Ralf NüseThe language and thought debate: A psycholinguistic approach Grzegorz Dogil, Hermann Ackermann, Wolfgang Grodd, Hubert Haider, Hans Kamp, Jörg Mayer, Axel Riecker, Dietmar Röhm, Dirk Wildgruber, and Wolfgang WokurekBrain dynamics induced by language production. Claire Gardent, Hélène Manuélian, Kristina Striegnitz, and Marilisa AmoiaGenerating definite descriptions, non-incrementality, inference, and data Markus Guhe, Christoper Habel, and Ladina TschanderIncremental generation of interconnected preverbal messages Silke Hamm and Jürgen BredenkampWorking memory and slips of the tongue Karin Harbuschand Jens WochIntegrated natural language generation with schema-tree adjoining grammars Bernadette M. Jansma, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Jürn Möller, and Thomas F. Münte Electrophysiological studies of speech production Dirk Janssen, Denisa Bordag, and Thomas PechmannMorphological encoding and morphological structures in German Gerard Kempen and Karin HarbuschA corpus study into word order variation in German subordinate clauses: Animacy affects linearization independently of grammatical function assignment Ralf Klabunde and Daniel GlatzOn the production of focus Helen Leuninger, Annette Hohenberger, Eva Waleschkowski, Elke Menges, and Daniela HappThe impact of modality on language production: Evidence from slips of the tongue and hand Thomas Pechmann and Dieter ZerbstSyntactic constraints on lexical access in language production Ulrich SchadeThe benefits of local-connectionist production Heike Tappe, Holden Härtl, and Susan OlsenThematic information, argument structure, and discourse adaptation in language production Rüdiger Weingarten, Guido Nottbusch, and Udo WillMorphemes, syllables, and graphemes in written word production