Biological Foundations of Language Production: A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

B. Rapp, M. Miozzo, Introduction to Papers From the 5th Workshop on Language Production: The Neural Bases of Language Production. K. Emmorey, S. McCullough, S. Mehta, L.L.B. Ponto, T.J. Grabowski, Sign language and Pantomime Production Differentially Engage Frontal and Parietal Cortices. J. Hanulova, D. J. Davidson, P. Indefrey, Where Does the Delay in L2 Picture Naming Come From? Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Evidence on Second Language Word Production. D. Poeppel, P.J. Monahan, Feedforward and Feedback in Speech Perception: Revisiting Analysis-by-synthesis.

The ever-expanding repertoire of neurocognitive methods has provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate language production. The research reported in this volume demonstrates the usefulness of these methods for advancing our understanding of the neural bases of language production.  Through the investigation of language production in different output modalities (spoken and manual) and different speakers (monolinguals and bilinguals), contributions to this volume attempt to define universal neural mechanisms for language production. Examining the interface between language production and comprehension, the studies in this volume also shed light on brain mechanisms that have general functions in language processing.