Better late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomena
- PMID: 27561706
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X15000813
Better late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomena
Abstract
Empirical evidence from dialogue, both corpus and experimental, highlights the importance of interaction in language use - and this raises some questions for Christiansen & Chater's (C&C's) proposals. We endorse C&C's call for an integrated framework but argue that their emphasis on local, individual production and comprehension makes it difficult to accommodate the ubiquitous, interactive, and defeasible processes of clarification and repair in conversation.
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Squeezing through the Now-or-Never bottleneck: Reconnecting language processing, acquisition, change, and structure.Behav Brain Sci. 2016 Jan;39:e91. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X15001235. Behav Brain Sci. 2016. PMID: 27561252
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The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language.Behav Brain Sci. 2016 Jan;39:e62. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1500031X. Epub 2015 Apr 14. Behav Brain Sci. 2016. PMID: 25869618
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