Open Peer Commentary Caplan & Waters: Working memory and sentence comprehension
Interpretative and post-interpretative processes in sentence comprehension
Edward Gibson a1andRose Roberts a2 a1 Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
gibson@psyche.mit.edu a2 Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
rose@psyche.mit.edu
Abstract
We discuss several issues raised by Caplan &
Waters's distinction between interpretative and
post-interpretative processes in sentence comprehension,
including the nature and properties of the two systems, problems
with measuring their respective capacities, and the relationship
between the hypothesized separate-language-interpretation-resource
(SLIR) and the general verbal working memory system that supports
post-interpretive processing.
