Willem Levelt is Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
[Levelt] synthesizes the state of the art with remarkable breadth, depth, and clarity. In 500 pages of highly readable text and forty pages of bibliography, he integrates, as no one has done previously, many lines of research that have often been pursued in ignorance of one another... . An outstandingly instructive book. --Dan Sperber, Times Literary Supplement A work of massive scholarship and authority. --Brian Butterworth, Times Higher Education Supplement