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Speech Production and Comprehension: One Lexicon or Two?

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Cognition and Motor Processes

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Among the modalities of motor control possessed by almost every adult human individual, the control of speech is surely the richest and most exquisitely articulated. This pre-eminence is evident both in terms of the intricacy and precision of the movement dynamics involved, and in terms of the range of cognitive contents to which speech can give expression.

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Allport, D.A. (1984). Speech Production and Comprehension: One Lexicon or Two?. In: Prinz, W., Sanders, A.F. (eds) Cognition and Motor Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69382-3_15

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