A previous paper (Locke & Fehr, in press a) reported analyses of EMG recordings from a chin-lip sire of 24 adults during their perception and rehearsal of word lists, with the general finding that lip activity was substantially greater when Ss processed lip-articulated compared to nonlabial words. This paper reports a subsequent analysis of phonetic activity during Ss' recall of the word lists, which was effected orally or graphically, with the finding that Ss' written reports were accompanied by as much motor-phonetic activity as spoken recall. The primary difference between overt and covert forms of speech appears not to lie in the nature of labial-nonlabial tracing relationships but in the absolute magnitude of EMG values.