We consider speaking as a manifestation of both verbal and nonverbal modes of utterances and study their interrelations and their dependency on situational characteristics in requests. In recent theories of speech production these aspects received little attention. A number of experiments were carried out in which subjects were either to give judgements about verbal/nonverbal combined requests, or to produce such combined utterances themselves. Conjoint measurement was applied to find an appropriate mathematical model of interaction. The results showed: (a) there is evidence that nonverbal components are produced in systematic interaction with verbal components within the planning process and not supplementarily added afterwards, as claimed in common speech production theories; (b) situational characteristics do not influence the planning process itself, but strongly determine the selection of specific variants of the involved components. A model of interactive utterance production is outlined corresponding to the information processing approach in Herrmann's (1985) conception of speech psychology.
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