ABSTRACT
Speech comprehension and speech production have a very intimate relationship. First, talking entails listening to spoken language: When we converse, when we give a speech, even when we talk to ourselves. Second, the encoding and decoding components of speech processing are of course linked via the speech code: The physical speech signal. Third, the production and comprehension systems are necessarily also internally bound together at potentially several different levels of processing. Without such internal links, it would be impossible to learn to speak a language.
