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“Process and perish” or multiple buffers with push-down stacks?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2016

Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen & Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands. stephen.levinson@mpi.nl
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Abstract

This commentary raises two issues: (1) Language processing is hastened not only by internal pressures but also externally by turn-taking in language use; (2) the theory requires nested levels of processing, but linguistic levels do not fully nest; further, it would seem to require multiple memory buffers, otherwise there's no obvious treatment for discontinuous structures, or for verbatim recall.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e81
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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