Abstract: This article is a brief summary of speech production抯 research tradition and the main research materials in recent years in western countries. Its mainly covered four parts: research tradition of speech production, modern research paradigm in the west, processing stages of speech production, main theoretical models and the disputes between them. The purpose of the article is to summarize the research course、methodology and theoretical disputes of speech production in the west, and provide some useful references for the study of Chinese.

Key words: speech production, research course, lemma processing and the selection of lexeme, phonological coactivation