title: Is Now-or-Never language processing good enough?
abstract: Christiansen & Chater's (C&C's) Now-or-Never bottleneck framework is similar to the Good-Enough Language Processing model (Ferreira et al. 2002), particularly in its emphasis on sparse representations. We discuss areas of overlap and review experimental findings that reinforce some of C&C's arguments, including evidence for underspecification and for parsing in "chunks." In contrast to Good-Enough, however, Now-or-Never does not appear to capture misinterpretations or task effects, both of which are important aspects of comprehension performance.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis,CA 95616. fferreira@ucdavis.edu http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/people/fferreir
authors: Fernanda
authors: F
authors: Ferreira
authors: College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820. kiel@illinois.edu http://epl.beckman.illinois.edu/
authors: Kiel
authors: K
authors: Christianson
mesh_terms: D032882:Comprehension; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language