Breaking the rules? Good-enough processing and related phenomena

ESSLLI 2019
Week 2 (August 12-16)



Note to participants: Further references can be found at the end of the "Misc" slides.



Preliminary reading list

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Dwivedi, V. D. (2013). Interpreting quantifier scope ambiguity: Evidence of heuristic first, algorithmic second processing. PloS one, 8(11), e81461.
Ferreira, F., Bailey, K. G., & Ferraro, V. (2002). Good-enough representations in language comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11(1), 11-15.
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Gigerenzer, G., & Goldstein, D. G. (1999). Betting on one good reason: The take the best heuristic. In: G. Gigerenzer, P. M. Todd, & the ABC Research Group, Simple heuristics that make us smart (pp. 75-95). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Tabor, W., Galantucci, B., & Richardson, D. (2004). Effects of merely local syntactic coherence on sentence processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 50(4), 355-370.
Townsend, D. J., & Bever, T. G. (2001). Sentence comprehension: The integration of habits and rules. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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