The 1988 Workshop on Cognitive Models of Speech Processing was held at Park Hotel Fiorelle, Sperlonga, Italy, on 16-20 May 1988. Twenty-five participants gathered in this small coastal village, where the Emperor Tiberius once kept a summer house, to discuss psycholinguistic and computational issues in speech and natural language processing.

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