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A separate language-interpretation resource: Premature fractionation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Paul Whitney
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4820 pwhitney@mail.wsu.edu
Desiree Budd
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY 40351 d.budd@morehead-st.edu
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Abstract

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The target article argues for the modularity of language interpretive processes without the usual criterion that a module be informationally encapsulated. It is the encapsulation criterion, however, that gives modularity most of its testability. Without the criterion of encapsulation, testing whether relatively automatic comprehension processes use their own unique resource is a very tricky matter.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press