ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2022
Good-enough language production.
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- Surprisal from Large Language Models as an individual difference: Capturing the individual regardless of the text answer.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Illusions of Plausibility: The Case of Semantic Attraction.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Article
- Decoding words during sentence production with ECoG reveals syntactic role encoding and structure-dependent temporal dynamics.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Conversational production and comprehension: fMRI-evidence reminiscent of but deviant from the classical Broca-Wernicke model.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Connectivity of Fronto-Temporal Regions in Syntactic Structure Building During Speaking and Listening.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Good enough processing: what have we learned in the 20 years since Ferreira et al. (2002)?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Syntactic representation of missing-verb anomalous utterances in Mandarin: Evidence from structural priming.Memory & cognition · 2023Article
- Information-theoretic principles in incremental language production.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Precision fMRI reveals that the language-selective network supports both phrase-structure building and lexical access during language production.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- A reconceptualization of sentence production in post-stroke agrammatic aphasia: the synergistic processing bottleneck model.Frontiers in language sciences · 2023Article
- Agrammatic output in non-fluent, including Broca's, aphasia as a rational behavior.Aphasiology · 2023Article
- Estimations of child linguistic productivity controlling for vocabulary and sample size.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Parents spontaneously scaffold the formation of conversational pacts with their children.Child developmentArticle
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Abstract
Our ability to comprehend and produce language is one of humans' most impressive skills, but it is not flawless. We must convey and interpret messages via a noisy channel in ever-changing contexts and we sometimes fail to access an optimal combination of words and grammatical constructions. Here, we extend the notion of good-enough (GN) comprehension to GN production, which allows us to unify a wide range of phenomena including overly vague word choices, agreement errors, resumptive pronouns, transfer effects, and children's overextensions and regularizations. We suggest these all involve the accessing and production of a 'GN' option when a more-optimal option is inaccessible. The role of accessibility highlights the need to relate memory encoding and retrieval processes to language comprehension and production.
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