Specifying Architectures for Language Processing: Process, Control, and Memory in Parsing and Interpretation

ing away from irrelevant details is a theoretical virtue, but the kinds of abstractionsthat module geography makes can lead to incorrect inferences from data. Thatsuch a possibility exists is clearly demonstrated by the working memory research of Just &Carpenter (1992). Briefly, Just and Carpenter have argued that some garden path effectsthat were previously interpreted in terms of a syntactically encapsulated module can insteadbe explained by individual differences in working memory...