ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a bilingual speech production model that incorporates our recent knowledge of L1 and L2 speech processing. Bilingual speech production is modular in the sense that it consists of separate encoding modules: the conceptualizer, the formulator, and the articulator, which work with their own characteristic input. Syntactic transfer and some cases of phonological rule transfer can be the result of the application of the procedural knowledge of L1 rules for encoding an L2 phrase or sentence. The bilingual speech production model is able to account for the use of communication strategies, code-switching, and transfer, and can accommodate formulaic language use as well as the development of encoding procedures. In this model, a concept is seen to be a conglomerate of interrelated memory traces consisting of information concerning word meaning. The model aims to follow the principle of ecology and simplicity, which is prevalent in human cognition.
