Evidence for, and predictions from, forward modeling in language production

authors

  • Alario F. -Xavier
  • Hamame Carlos M.

document type

ART

abstract

Pickering & Garrod (P&G) put forward the interesting idea that language production relies on forward modeling operating at multiple processing levels. The evidence currently available to substantiate this idea mostly concerns sensorimotor processes and not more abstract linguistic levels (e.g., syntax, semantics, phonology). The predictions that follow from the claim seem too general, in their current form, to guide specific empirical tests.

more information