Misapplying working-memory tests: A reductio ad absurdum

Keywords

Reductio ad absurdum, Psychology, Argument (complex analysis), Sentence, Sentence processing

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• Exploring Functional-Cognitive SpaceChristopher S. Butler, Francisco Gonzálvez-García — 2014
• Continuations and Natural LanguageChris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan — 2014
• Gapping as hypothetical reasoningYūsuke Kubota, Robert D. Levine — 2016
• Processing effects in linguistic judgment data: (super-)additivity and reading span scores*Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto, Ivan A. Sag — 2014
• Child language acquisition: Why universal grammar doesn’t helpBen Ambridge, Julián M. Pine, Elena Lieven — 2014
• Individual differences and the nature of the processorTheres Grüter — 2013
• The D-linking effect on extraction from islands and non-islandsGrant Goodall — 2015
• An expectation-based account of subject islands and parasitism1Rui P. Chaves — 2012
• Learning a Generative Probabilistic Grammar of Experience: A Process-Level Model of Language AcquisitionOren Kolodny, Arnon Lotem, Shimon Edelman — 2015
• Against ellipsis: arguments for the direct licensing of ‘noncanonical’ coordinationsYūsuke Kubota, Robert D. Levine — 2015
• The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native SpeakersSaad Aldosari — 2015
• Continuations and natural language by Chris Barker and Chung-chieh Shan (review)Yūsuke Kubota — 2015
• Subliminal wh-islands in brazilian Portuguese and the consequenceS for Syntactic theoryDiogo Almeida — 2014
• Attentional control and prediction in native and non-native speakersAlison Gabriele, Robert Fiorentino, Adrienne Johnson — 2015
• Individual on-line processing differences are not necessarily reflected in off-line acceptability judgments.Dan Michel — 2013
• Chapter 2. ProfilesChristopher S. Butler, Francisco Gonzálvez-García — 2014
• Abbreviations for modelsChristopher S. Butler, Francisco Gonzálvez-García — 2014
• A refutation of universal grammarFrancis Y. Lin — 2017
• The Relationship between Syntactic Satiation and Syntactic Priming: A First LookMónica Lindı́n, Elsi Kaiser — 2017

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