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What is the context of prediction?
Si On Yoon1, Sarah Brown-Schmidt
1Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. syoon@illinois.edu
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|June 25, 2013
Summary
Theories of language processing need to link production and comprehension. However, Pickering & Garrod
Area of Science:
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Theories of language processing must integrate language production and comprehension.
- Pickering & Garrod (P&G) proposed a dual-mechanism model for predicting utterance production.
Purpose of the Study:
- To critically evaluate P&G's dual-mechanism model.
- To address the underspecified notion of context in predictive language processing.
- To compare the explanatory power of dual-mechanism versus single-mechanism models.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of P&G's dual-mechanism model.
- Examination of the role of context in predictive language processing.
- Theoretical comparison of single- and dual-mechanism models.
Main Results:
- The concept of context in P&G's model is not sufficiently defined.
- Evidence does not conclusively support a dual-mechanism model over a single-mechanism model.
Conclusions:
- Further refinement of the role of context is necessary for language processing theories.
- The superiority of dual-mechanism models in explaining predictive language phenomena requires additional empirical support.
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