The Seventh Conference in Laboratory Phonology was cohosted by the University of Nijmegen and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics from 28 June to 1 July 2000, and was
the first conference in the series to be held outside an Englishspeaking country. The organisational format which had made the
first six conferences so successful was followed in Nijmegen, too.
Thematically, the conference's location is reflected in the two parts
into which this volume has been divided. Part 1 deals with phonological issues from a psycholinguistic perspective, while Part 2
deals with the relation between phonetics and phonology in a way
that was envisaged by the organizers of the first conference, Mary
Beckman and John Kingston, at a time when the combined study
of phonological representations and the phonetic record was not
yet self-evident. As a whole, the volume comprises the written versions of 17 oral presentations and five commentaries, one of
which, that by Dafydd Gibbon, represents a contribution that was
invited after the conference. The number of commentaries reflects
the original sub-thematic structure of the conference, which was
divided into fives sections. Two of these, Phonological Encoding
and Phonological Processing, represented the psycholinguistic
half, while three, Field work and phonological theory, Speech technology and phonological theory, and the Phonology-Phonetics
interface, reflected other local interests.