TY - JOUR
T1 - Is Now-or-Never language processing good enough?
AU - Ferreira, Fernanda
AU - Christianson, Kiel
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Christiansen & Chater's (C&C's) Now-or-Never bottleneck framework is similar to the Good-Enough Language Processing model (Ferreira et al. 2002), particularly in its emphasis on sparse representations. We discuss areas of overlap and review experimental findings that reinforce some of C&C's arguments, including evidence for underspecification and for parsing in "chunks." In contrast to Good-Enough, however, Now-or-Never does not appear to capture misinterpretations or task effects, both of which are important aspects of comprehension performance.
AB - Christiansen & Chater's (C&C's) Now-or-Never bottleneck framework is similar to the Good-Enough Language Processing model (Ferreira et al. 2002), particularly in its emphasis on sparse representations. We discuss areas of overlap and review experimental findings that reinforce some of C&C's arguments, including evidence for underspecification and for parsing in "chunks." In contrast to Good-Enough, however, Now-or-Never does not appear to capture misinterpretations or task effects, both of which are important aspects of comprehension performance.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X15000771
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X15000771
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 27561219
AN - SCOPUS:85021855270
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 39
SP - e72
JO - The Behavioral and brain sciences
JF - The Behavioral and brain sciences
ER -