ABSTRACT
In the broad field of psycholinguistics, the modeling of language processing has evolved over the last couple of decades into a prominent subfield that now exerts substantial influence on the direction of the discipline (Christiansen & Chater, 2001). It has sparked new ways of thinking about how language is produced and perceived, most notably in the context of localist connectionist models. With these positive developments have come new challenges, such as devising tests to distinguish among competing models.
