SPOKEN WORD ACCESS PROCESSES (SWAP) May 29-31, 2000 Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Why merge really is autonomous and parsimonious

James M. McQueen (1), Anne Cutler (1), Dennis Norris (2)

(1) Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(2) MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

We briefly describe the Merge model of phonemic decision-making, and, in the light of general arguments about the possible role of feedback in spoken-word recognition, defend Merge's feedforward structure. Merge not only accounts adequately for the data, without invoking feedback connections, but does so in a parsimonious manner.

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Bibliographic reference.  McQueen, James M. / Cutler, Anne / Norris, Dennis (2000): "Why merge really is autonomous and parsimonious", In SWAP-2000, 47-50.