The Production of Single- and Multiple-Word-Utterances

In general, speaking is a fast and highly automatic process. On average we produce up to three words per second while making hardly any errors (roughly one error per thousand words). Simple utterances can consist of a single word, e.g. when we name an object. The ability to produce single words is, of course, a core ingredient of the ability to produce larger utterances. The theory that has been developed within the production group assumes that lexical access is a serial process: A new process can only start once the previous process has been completed.