A separate language-interpretation resource: Premature fractionation?
Paul J. Whitney, Desiree Budd · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1999
The target article argues for the modularity of language interpretive processes without the usual criterion that a module be informationally encapsulated. It is the encapsulation criterion, however, that gives modularity most of its testability. Without the criterion of encapsulation, testing whether relatively automatic comprehension processes use their own unique resource is a very tricky matter.