Are the cognitive processes involved in the retrieval of words, planning of speech, and speech articulation modularly separated, or are these stages of processing interactive? I’ll discuss recent work examining this issue in multilingual speakers, leveraging automated acoustic analysis methods to substantially increase sample sizes relative to previous phonetic studies. The emerging empirical picture suggests that processing does not neatly fall into either side of the modular/interactive divide, challenging current theories of speech production.

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