@article{adbc5bcb86ea4ce7b4b81c94345ebfdb,
title = "Good-enough language production",
abstract = "Our ability to comprehend and produce language is one of humans{\textquoteright} most impressive skills, but it is not flawless. We must convey and interpret messages via a noisy channel in ever-changing contexts and we sometimes fail to access an optimal combination of words and grammatical constructions. Here, we extend the notion of good-enough (GN) comprehension to GN production, which allows us to unify a wide range of phenomena including overly vague word choices, agreement errors, resumptive pronouns, transfer effects, and children's overextensions and regularizations. We suggest these all involve the accessing and production of a {\textquoteleft}GN{\textquoteright} option when a more-optimal option is inaccessible. The role of accessibility highlights the need to relate memory encoding and retrieval processes to language comprehension and production.",
keywords = "communication, good-enough processing, language production",
author = "Goldberg, {Adele E.} and Fernanda Ferreira",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Kara Federmeier and two anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier draft. We have been fortunate to work with excellent colleagues and collaborators on issues discussed here, including Vic Ferreira, Crystal Lee, Casey Lew-Williams, Jessica Schwab, and Benjamin Swets. We acknowledge support from National Science Foundation grant BCS-1650888 and National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Child Development grant 1R01HD100516 awarded to F.F. Funding Information: We are grateful to Kara Federmeier and two anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier draft. We have been fortunate to work with excellent colleagues and collaborators on issues discussed here, including Vic Ferreira, Crystal Lee, Casey Lew-Williams, Jessica Schwab, and Benjamin Swets. We acknowledge support from National Science Foundation grant BCS-1650888 and National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Child Development grant 1R01HD100516 awarded to F.F. No interests are declared. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Elsevier Ltd",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1016/j.tics.2022.01.005",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "26",
pages = "300--311",
journal = "Trends in Cognitive Sciences",
issn = "1364-6613",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "4",
}