Abstract
What belongs together goes together: the speaker-hearer perspective. A commentary on MacDonald's PDC account
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There is much in this paper that we whole-heartedly agree with
The second shortcoming is that the PDC account is mostly based on the production of single sentences, something that hardly ever happens in daily language use
We will discuss the consequences of both observations about language users for the PDC account
Summary
There is much in this paper that we whole-heartedly agree with. Aiming to link language change and typology to specific, independently established cognitive principles is a timely and exciting research program. Are there any processes that are exclusively involved in listening but not in speaking? There is no evidence for access or encoding processes that would occur only during speaking or during listening.
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