TY - JOUR
T1 - Linguistics, cognitive psychology, and the Now-or-Never bottleneck
AU - Endress, Ansgar D.
AU - Katzir, Roni
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021856333&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0140525X15000953
DO - 10.1017/S0140525X15000953
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AN - SCOPUS:85021856333
SN - 0140-525X
VL - 39
SP - e71
JO - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences
ER -