title: Linguistics, cognitive psychology, and the Now-or-Never bottleneck.
abstract: Christiansen & Chater (C&C)'s key premise is that "if linguistic information is not processed rapidly, that information is lost for good" (sect. 1, para. 1). From this "Now-or-Never bottleneck" (NNB), C&C derive "wide-reaching and fundamental implications for language processing, acquisition and change as well as for the structure of language itself" (sect. 2, para. 10). We question both the premise and the consequentiality of its purported implications.
authors: Department of Psychology,City University London,London EC1V 0HB,United Kingdomansgar.endress.1@city.ac.uk.
authors: Ansgar D
authors: AD
authors: Endress
authors: Department of Linguistics and Sagol School of Neuroscience,Tel Aviv University,Ramat Aviv 69978,Israel.rkatzir@post.tau.ac.il.
authors: Roni
authors: R
authors: Katzir
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics