ABSTRACT
The Competition Model stands as one Elizabeth Bates’s major theoretical contributions to psycholinguistics. It was my honor to work with her for over twenty years in the development of this model from our first coauthored paper in 1978 up through our applications of the model to second language and aphasia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The classic version of the model can be found in the volume that we coedited in 1989 (MacWhinney & Bates, 1989). Recently Bates, Devescovi, & Wulfeck (2001) have summarized a wide range of newly accumulated data, particularly on the application of the model to crosslinguistic studies of aphasia. In addition, a recent article by Dick et al. (2001) shows how the comparison of normals and aphasics in a Competition Model framework can illuminate the issue of the distributed nature of language localization in the brain.
