ABSTRACT
It is of no small consequence, and a happy circumstance, that this chapter is titled as it is rather than, say, something like “Psychological Models of Speech Production.” The project suggested by such an alternative title would be a daunting one indeed-we suspect that it would not be possible to do justice to that topic in less than several hundred pages. Fortunately, our task is made considerably more tractable by limiting the focus to message production rather than speech production and by restricting the domain of models under examination to those that reflect the particular stance of cognitive science as opposed to the broader constellation of approaches that address issues of behavioral production by invoking psychological constructs of one sort or another.
