In this paper I present new evidence, stemming both from an experiment and from spontaneous speech, demonstrating that (a) lexical bias is caused by self-monitoring of inner speech, as proposed by Levelt et al. [1], and (b) that there is phoneme-to-word feedback in the mental programming of speech, as supposed by Dell [2] and Stemberger [3]. It is argued here that possibly phoneme-to-word feedback is an unavoidable side-effect of self-monitoring of inner speech.

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