This paper introduces a special issue of Cognition on lexical access in speech production.
Over the last quarter century, the psycholinguistic study of speaking, and in particular of …

A substantial research literature documents the effects of diverse item attributes, task
conditions, and participant characteristics on the ease of picture naming. The authors review …

This paper presents the results of a comprehensive meta-analysis of the relevant imaging
literature on word production (82 experiments). In addition to the spatial overlap of activated …

In 7 experiments the authors investigated the locus of word frequency effects in speech
production. Exp 1 demonstrated a frequency effect in picture naming that was robust over …

Do nonselected lexical nodes activate their phonological information? Catalan–Spanish
bilinguals were asked to name (a) pictures whose names are cognates in the 2 languages …

The ability to speak is one of the basic ingredients of human life. We are social animals,
deeply caring for the cohesion of our closest kin and for harmony in our daily personal …

Two picture-word interference experiments were conducted to investigate whether or not
words from a first and more dominant language are activated during lexical access in a …

Lexical access in speaking consists of two major steps: lemma retrieval and word-form
encoding. In Roelofs (Roelofs, A. 1992a. Cognition 42, 107–142; Roelofs, A. 1993 …

The first, theoretical part of this paper sketches a framework for phonological encoding in
which the speaker successively generates phonological syllables in connected speech. The …

Theories of lexical representation in production provide sophisticated accounts of the way in
which information is activated during lexical access (eg, Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999), but …