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The commentators raise many important issues and suggest fruitful lines of development. I thank all of them for their efforts. My paper focused on how bilingual speakers control the lexico-semantic system rather than on the nature of that system. It glossed over the processes of word recognition (Carr, Dijkstra) and considered only cursorily issues such as the mapping of thought into language (Schreuder & Hermans), the role of conceptual activation in lemma selection (Kroll & Michael) and the range and nature of the semantic relationships between words (Schreuder & Hermans, Treffers-Daller, Li). I will comment on these matters as I address three concerns about the proposed control processes: (1) the nature of schemas and their role in control (Carr, de Groot, Dijkstra); (2) the notion of a tag: its psychological reality (Li, Treffers-Daller), its relationship to a language node (Dijkstra) and its role in selection (Carr); and (3) the question of inhibition as the general means of lemma selection (Carr, de Groot, Roelofs).
