title: Production-comprehension asymmetries.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 fernanda@eyelab.msu.edu http://eyelab.msu.edu/people/ferreira/fernanda.html.
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ferreira