Specifying Architectures for Language Processing: Process, Control, and Memory in Parsing and Interpretation (1997)
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@MISC{Lewis97specifyingarchitectures,
author = {Richard L. Lewis},
title = {Specifying Architectures for Language Processing: Process, Control, and Memory in Parsing and Interpretation},
year = {1997}
}
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Abstract
ing away from irrelevant details is a theoretical virtue, but the kinds of abstractions that module geography makes can lead to incorrect inferences from data. That such a possibility exists is clearly demonstrated by the working memory research of Just & Carpenter (1992). Briefly, Just and Carpenter have argued that some garden path effects that were previously interpreted in terms of a syntactically encapsulated module can instead be explained by individual differences in working memory capacity. Such an explanation is not considered in a theoretical framework that systematically ignores the role of memory structures in parsing. This point should be taken regardless of whether one is convinced by the current body of empirical support for this particular model---the fact remains that such an explanation could in principle account for the data, and these alternative explanations are only discovered by developing functionally complete architectures. The next few sections describes what ...
