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8 - Taking Stock

Where Do We Go Next?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2025

Dan Parker
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The Ohio State University
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Chapter 8 provides a summary of the book’s key findings, emphasizing how the retrieval-based account provides better empirical coverage over the representational-based accounts. This chapter then explores key outstanding questions in the study of linguistic illusions, including the interaction between encoding and retrieval processes, individual differences, the effects of good-enough processing, and the role of different linguistic features across languages. The chapter concludes by outlining future directions for research, suggesting potential interventions to reduce attraction errors through memory training and timing manipulations. As the final chapter, it reflects on how scientific inquiry continues to evolve, encouraging further investigation into the cognitive mechanisms behind real-time language processing.

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  • Taking Stock
  • Dan Parker, The Ohio State University
  • Book: Linguistic Illusions
  • Online publication: 30 October 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009447317.009
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  • Taking Stock
  • Dan Parker, The Ohio State University
  • Book: Linguistic Illusions
  • Online publication: 30 October 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009447317.009
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  • Taking Stock
  • Dan Parker, The Ohio State University
  • Book: Linguistic Illusions
  • Online publication: 30 October 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009447317.009
Available formats
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