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What is the context of prediction?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2013

Si On Yoon  and
Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Si On Yoon
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. syoon@illinois.edu
Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820. brownsch@illinois.edu
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Abstract

We agree with Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) claim that theories of language processing must address the interconnection of language production and comprehension. However, we have two concerns: First, the central notion of context when predicting what another person will say is underspecified. Second, it is not clear that P&G's dual-mechanism model captures the data better than a single-mechanism model would.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , August 2013 , pp. 376 - 377
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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