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An alternative model of sentence parsing explains complexity phenomena more comprehensively without problems of localist encoding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2006

Carol Whitney
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7505 cwhitney@cs.umd.edu http://www.cs.umd.edu/~shankar/cwhitney

Abstract

I discuss weaknesses of the proposed model related to reinstantiation of encodings recorded by the hippocampal complex and to the inability of the model to explain complexity phenomena. An alternative model that also addresses the formation of hierarchical representations of sentences in working memory is outlined, and the ability of this model to account for complexity phenomena is briefly reviewed.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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