title: Better late than Now-or-Never: The case of interactive repair phenomena.
abstract: Empirical evidence from dialogue, both corpus and experimental, highlights the importance of interaction in language use - and this raises some questions for Christiansen & Chater's (C&C's) proposals. We endorse C&C's call for an integrated framework but argue that their emphasis on local, individual production and comprehension makes it difficult to accommodate the ubiquitous, interactive, and defeasible processes of clarification and repair in conversation.
authors: Cognitive Science Research Group,School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science,Queen Mary University of London,London E1 4NS,United Kingdomp.healey@qmul.ac.ukm.purver@qmul.ac.uk.
authors: Patrick G T
authors: PG
authors: Healey
authors: Department of Philosophy,Linguistics and Theory of Science,University of Gothenburg,405 30 Gothenburg,Swedenchristine.howes@gu.se.
authors: Christine
authors: C
authors: Howes
authors: Fak. LiLi,Universität Bielefeld,D-33501 Bielefeld,Germany.julian.hough@uni-bielefeld.de.
authors: Julian
authors: J
authors: Hough
authors: Cognitive Science Research Group,School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science,Queen Mary University of London,London E1 4NS,United Kingdomp.healey@qmul.ac.ukm.purver@qmul.ac.uk.
authors: Matthew
authors: M
authors: Purver
mesh_terms: D032882:Comprehension; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language