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Action sequences instead of representational levels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Ruth Kempson  and
Eleni Gregoromichelaki
Ruth Kempson
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, King's College, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom. ruth.kempson@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/associates/emeritus/kempson/index.aspx
Eleni Gregoromichelaki
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, King's College, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom. ruth.kempson@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/associates/emeritus/kempson/index.aspx Cognitive Science Department, Osnabrück University, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany. elenigregor@gmail.com https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=WnwSV4cAAAAJ&hl=en
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Abstract

Despite enthusiastic agreement that experimental data are directly relevant for determining grammar architecture, we present one main objection to the conclusions that the authors draw from their results: The data are perfectly compatible – in fact, much more in line – with an alternative that does not rely on syntactic representations. Instead, it is processing actions whose activation for comprehension/production explains intra-/inter-speaker priming.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e296
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