Hesitations and clarifications on a model to abandon feedback

Hesitations about accepting whole-heartedly Norris et al.'s suggestion to a bandon feedback in speech processing models concern (1) whether accounting for all available data justifies additional layers of complexity in the mod el and (2) whether characterizing Merge as non-interactive is valid. Spoken word recognition studies support the nature of Merge's lexical level and s uggest that phonemes should comprise the prelexical level.