“…Studies showing the detrimental effect of continuously articulating a single word while trying to retain a verbal list in short-term memory have led to the suggestion that articulatory suppression prevents the generation ofa phonological code from visual input (see, e.g., Baddeley, Thomson, & Buchanan, 1975;Coltheart, Avons,& Trollope, 1990). Although articulatory suppression interferes with the ability to make rhyme judgments (see, e.g., Baron & Baron, 1977;Johnston & MeDermott, 1986;Kleiman, 1975), it does not impair the ability to carry out various forms of homophone decision (Baddeley & Lewis, 1981;Besner, Davies, & Daniels, 1981;Howard & Franklin, 1989). This suggests that, although articulating a single word repeatedly may interfere with the maintenance of a phonological code, it does not prevent the generation of a code from the phonological output lexicon.…”