title: "Process and perish" or multiple buffers with push-down stacks?
abstract: This commentary raises two issues: (1) Language processing is hastened not only by internal pressures but also externally by turn-taking in language use; (2) the theory requires nested levels of processing, but linguistic levels do not fully nest; further, it would seem to require multiple memory buffers, otherwise there's no obvious treatment for discontinuous structures, or for verbatim recall.
authors: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,Nijmegen & Donders Institute for Brain,Cognition and Behaviour,Radboud University,6500 AH Nijmegen,The Netherlands.stephen.levinson@mpi.nl.
authors: Stephen C
authors: SC
authors: Levinson
mesh_terms: D002021:Buffers; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall
chemical_list: D002021:Buffers