ABSTRACT
This chapter is rather different from most in this volume. First of all, with one small and rather amusing exception, it does not concern word recognition or reading. Second, unusually (though not uniquely; see the chapter by Balota & Yap), it concerns abnormal rather than normal language. Third (though again not quite uniquely; here, see chapters by Andrews, by Pollatsek & Hyönä, and by Rayner, Reichle & Pollatsek), it treats connected speech/ language rather than single-word processing. Despite these deviations from the central tendency, the chapter should be germane to the themes of the book in the sense that it concerns issues of lexical retrieval, of the relationship between language and conceptual knowledge/processing, and of the modularity or otherwise of different aspects of language processing.
