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Occam's razor is a double-edged sword: Reduced interaction is not necessarily reduced power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

D. H. Whalen
D. H. Whalen
Affiliation:
Haskins Laboratories, 270 Crown St., New Haven, CT 06511 whalen@haskins.yale.edu macserver.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/STAFF/whalen.html
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Abstract

Although Norris, McQueen & Cutler have provided convincing evidence that there is no need for contributions from the lexicon to phonetic processing, their simplification of the communication between levels comes at a cost to the processes themselves. Although their arrangement may ultimately prove correct, its validity is not due to a successful application of Occam's razor.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , June 2000 , pp. 351
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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