Abstract
Many models of speech production assume that one cannot begin to articulate a word before all its segmentalunits are inserted into the articulatory plan. Moreover, some of these models assume that segments are seriallyinserted from left to right. As a consequence, latencies to name words should increase with word length. In aseries of five experiments, however, we showed that the time to name a picture or retrieve a word associatedwith a symbol is not affected by the length of the word. Experiments 1 and 2 used French materials and participants, while Experiments 3, 4, and 5 were conducted with English materials and participants. These results are discussed in relation to current models of speech production and previous reports of length effects are reevaluated in light of these findings. We conclude that if words are encoded serially, then articulation can start before an entire phonological word has been encoded.
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