This framework was selected rather than newer or more task-specific frameworks as it is the same underlying memory model of ACT-R, which has been used to explain a wide variety of language phenomena (e.g., Vasishth and Lewis, 2004;Reitter et al., 2011), but also has been used to explain everything from decision-making (e.g., Marewski and Mehlhorn, 2011) to visual attention in graphical user interfaces (e.g., Byrne et al., 1999).
further, this type of buffering strategy could be part of the strategy that ferreira and Swets (2002) refer to, when they propose the incrementality of language production is under "strategic control."