The use of language is a fundamental component of much of our day‎-to‎-day life‎.‎ Language often co‎-occurs with other activities with which it must be coordinated‎.‎ This raises the question of whether the cognitive processes involved in planning spoken utterances and in understanding them are autonomous or whether they are affected by‎,‎ and perhaps affect‎,‎ non‎-linguistic cognitive processes‎,‎ with which they might share processing resources‎.‎ This question is the central concern of Automaticity and Control in Language Processing‎.‎ The chapters address key issues concerning the relationship between linguistic and non‎-linguistic processes‎,‎ including‎:‎ How can the degree of automaticity of a component be defined‎?‎ * Which linguistic processes are truly automatic‎,‎ and which require processing capacity‎?‎ * Through which mechanisms can control processes affect linguistic performance‎?‎ How might these mechanisms be represented in