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All individuals with aphasia experience some level of anomia, or difficulty with naming and word finding, but many report that their internal word knowledge exceeds their spoken output, making comments like,“I know it but I can’t say it” or even more specifically,“I can say it in my head”(but not aloud). Such comments align with processing models of naming, which include multiple stages of lexical retrieval and post-lexical output processing. Given that anomia can arise from impairments at any one (or more) of the processing stages, it is conceivable that feelings of intact lexical knowledge reported by people with aphasia reflect success in the early stages, despite overt anomia resulting from impairment at a later stage.