This document provides an agenda and overview for a literature review on the time course, behavioral, and electrophysiological correlates of emotional language production. It discusses how the mental lexicon stores semantic meaning and is sensitive to emotional content. Two experiments are proposed to investigate early posterior negativity and self-monitoring during emotional (+,-,N) word production using event-related potentials and the RIDE method to correct for speech artifacts. The finding section notes emotion effects were found for negative content in the first but not second trial, with no other reliable effects of emotion found on semantic and lexical processing stages of language production.