Imagine you’re piecing together a complex puzzle, trying to understand the hidden intricacies of language and cognition. Well, that’s exactly what these clever scientists did in Löhr and Michel’s study! They built a neurocognitive model, like a blueprint for how our brains process information, to explore the acceptability of copredication sentences. These are sentences that use multiple predicates to describe one subject. But here’s the twist: the order of those predicates can affect how acceptable the sentence is! Murphy had his own interpretation of why this happens based on semantic complexity, but Löhr and Michel disagreed. In this fascinating reply, they clarify where they agree and disagree with Murphy and address some misunderstandings of their model. It’s like unraveling a tangled thread of ideas! This research could help us better understand not only the intricacies of language but also the inner workings of our cognitive processes. Go ahead and dive into the full article to uncover more insights!
Abstract
In Löhr and Michel (2022), we proposed a neurocognitive model within the predictive processing paradigm for acceptability intuitions about copredication sentences. We also addressed “predicate order effects,” the phenomenon that the acceptability of copredication sentences can vary with the order in which the predicates occur. We discussed Murphy’s interpretation of order preferences based on a hierarchy of semantic complexity and tried to motivate that other interpretations are worthwhile pursuing. In a reply letter, Murphy (2022) takes issue with our approach, putting forward several purported methodological and conceptual issues with our paper. In this reply, we first clarify where exactly we agree and disagree. Second, we focus on a crucial equivocation and some misrepresentations of our proposal by Murphy.
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