This volume comprises contributions from different disciplines (cognitive psychology, linguistics, computer science, neuro-science) 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. From the Contents: THOMAS PECHMANN AND CHRISTOPHER HABEL Preface MERRILL GARRETT Introduction GERHARD BLANKEN, FLORIAN KULKE, BRITTA BIEDERMANN, TOBIAS BORMANN, JÜRGEN DITTMANN, AND CLAUS-W. WALLESCH The dissolution of word production in aphasia: Implications for normal functions JENS BÖLTE, PIENIE ZWITSERLOOD, AND PETRA DOHMES Morphology in experimental speech production research MARY CARROLL, CHRISTIANE VON STUTTERHEIM, AND RALF NÜSE The 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 WOKUREK Brain dynamics induced by language productionCLAIRE GARDENT, HÉLÈNE MANUÉLIAN, KRISTINA STRIEGNITZ, AND MARILISA AMOIA Generating definite descriptions, non-incrementality, inference, and data MARKUS GUHE, CHRISTOPER HABEL, AND LADINA TSCHANDER INCREMENTAL GENERATION OF interconnected preverbal messages SILKE HAMM AND JÜRGEN BREDENKAMPWorking memory and slips of the tongue KARIN HARBUSCH AND JENS WOCH Integrated natural language generation with schema-tree adjoining grammarsBERNADETTE M. JANSMA, ANTONI RODRIGUEZ-FORNELLS, JÜRN MÖLLER, AND THOMAS F. MÜNTE Electrophysiological studies of speech production DIRK JANSSEN, DENISA BORDAG, AND THOMAS PECHMANN Morphological encoding and morphological structures in German GERARD KEMPEN AND KARIN HARBUSCH A corpus study into word order variation in German subordinate clauses: Animacy affects linearization independently of grammatical function assignmentRALF KLABUNDE AND DANIEL GLATZ On the production of focusHELEN LEUNINGER, ANNETTE HOHENBERGER, EVA WALESCHKOWSKI, ELKE MENGES, AND DANIELA HAPP The impact of modality on language production: Evidence from slips of the tongue and hand THOMAS PECHMANN AND DIETER ZERBST Syntactic constraints on lexical access in language production ULRICH SCHADE The benefits of local-connectionist production HEIKE TAPPE, HOLDEN HÄRTL, AND SUSAN OLSEN Thematic information, argument structure, and discourse adaptation in language production RÜDIGER WEINGARTEN, GUIDO NOTTBUSCH, AND UDO WILL Morphemes, syllables, and graphemes in written word productionSIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER.To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-FachverlagePostfach 434372774 Reutlingen, GermanyFax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33E-mail: deGruyter@s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico:Walter de Gruyter, Inc.200 Saw Mill River RoadHawthorne, NY 10532, USAFax: +1 (914) 747-1326E-mail: cs@degruyterny.comPlease visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com