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Models as hypothesis generators and models as roadmaps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2010

MARC BRYSBAERT ,
NELE VERREYT  and
WOUTER DUYCK
MARC BRYSBAERT*
Affiliation:
Ghent University, Belgium
NELE VERREYT
Affiliation:
Ghent University, Belgium
WOUTER DUYCK
Affiliation:
Ghent University, Belgium
*
Address for correspondence: Marc Brysbaert, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. Tel: +32 9 264 94 25. Fax: +32 9 264 64 96. marc.brysbaert@ugent.be
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Abstract

In this reply to Kroll, Van Hell, Tokowicz and Green (this issue) we present an analysis of the citations made to the Revised Hierarchical Model (RHM). This gives us a quantitative summary of the current use of the RHM, showing that RHM has been used equally often to guide research in word recognition as in word production. We also question the claim that Brysbaert and Duyck's (this issue) focus on word recognition leaves RHM unscathed for the explanation of word production and the interactions between lexical and conceptual representations. For these research topics too, we feel that more progress will be made by adapting computational monolingual models to the bilingual situation rather than by trying to understand the findings from the RHM framework.

Keywords

Revised Hierarchical Modelbilingualismcomputational modeling
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 383 - 384
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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