title: Now or … later: Perceptual data are not immediately forgotten during language processing.
abstract: Christiansen & Chater (C&C) propose that language comprehenders must immediately compress perceptual data by "chunking" them into higher-level categories. Effective language understanding, however, requires maintaining perceptual information long enough to integrate it with downstream cues. Indeed, recent results suggest comprehenders do this. Although cognitive systems are undoubtedly limited, frameworks that do not take into account the tasks that these systems evolved to solve risk missing important insights.
authors: Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-0854. kbicknell@northwestern.edu http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/kbicknell/
authors: Klinton
authors: K
authors: Bicknell
authors: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0268 fjaeger@mail.bcs.rochester.edu https://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/
authors: T Florian
authors: TF
authors: Jaeger
authors: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0268 fjaeger@mail.bcs.rochester.edu https://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/fjaeger/
authors: Michael K
authors: MK
authors: Tanenhaus
mesh_terms: D032882:Comprehension; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011340:Problem Solving