Production-comprehension asymmetries.
Pickering & Garrod's (P&G's) mechanistic theory of dialogue is a major advance for psycholinguistics. But the commitment to representational parity in production and comprehension is problematic. Recent research suggests that speakers frequently produce a structure that listeners find ungrammatical and have trouble understanding. If the grammars of the two systems are different, then the assumption of representational parity must be relaxed.
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Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 fernanda@eyelab.msu.edu http://eyelab.msu.edu/people/ferreira/fernanda.html.