Thirty years of Speaking: An introduction to the Special Issue

ABSTRACT

Thirty years ago, Pim Levelt published Speaking. During the 10th International Workshop on Language Production held at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen in July 2018, researchers reflected on the impact of the book in the field, developments since its publication, and current research trends. The contributions in this Special Issue are closely related to the presentations given at the workshop. In this editorial, we sketch the research agenda set by Speaking, review how different aspects of this agenda are taken up in the papers in this volume and outline directions for further research.

Acknowledgements

The workshop and this Special Issue would not have materialised without the kind support of many colleagues and friends. We are extremely grateful to Nicolas Wade for allowing us to display his portrait of Pim Levelt on the cover of this volume. We thank the scientific committee of the International Workshop for Language Production, F-Xavier Alario, Adam Buchwald, Albert Costa (farewell Albert!), Victor Ferreira, and Alissa Melinger, for their support and advice before and during the workshop, and the Max Planck Society, the Language in Interaction Consortium (NWO) and the Donders Institute of Radboud University for financial support. We thank the reviewers for their constructive feedback and Billi Randall at the Language, Cognition and Neuroscience editorial office for superb—and patient—technical and editorial assistance. Most importantly, we thank Pim Levelt for all his kindness, his never-ending support of our endeavours and 30 years of inspiration.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.