ABSTRACT
Welcome to the Conference on Modularity and the Motor Theory of Speech Perception. It is a real pleasure to see so many old friends and to greet those of you whom I have known only by reputation—a pleasure, too, to welcome you graduate students on whom the future of speech research depends. If you are wondering about the viability of a field of research that is already honoring one of its pioneers, the papers you are about to hear will make it clear, I think, that there are more problems ahead of you than there are solutions behind us greybeards. For example: Modularity and the Motor Theory. So welcome to the intellectual challenges as well as to this conference!
