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Production-comprehension asymmetries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Fernanda Ferreira*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI48824-1117http://eyelab.msu.edu/people/ferreira/fernanda.html

Abstract

Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) mechanistic theory of dialogue is a major advance for psycholinguistics. But the commitment to representational parity in production and comprehension is problematic. Recent research suggests that speakers frequently produce a structure that listeners find ungrammatical and have trouble understanding. If the grammars of the two systems are different, then the assumption of representational parity must be relaxed.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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