Inner speech, that little voice that people often hear inside their heads while thinking, is a form of mental imagery. The properties of inner speech errors can be used to investigate the nature of inner speech, just as overt slips are informative about overt speech production. Overt slips tend to create words ("lexical bias") and involve similar…

Three experiments examined how the sounds of words are represented in plans for speech production. The sequential cuing model accounts for the basic findings of all three experiments. (DR)