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- The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Overview of the Handbook
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Models and Measures
- Part III Linguistic Theories and Frameworks
- 13 Have Grammars Been Shaped by Working Memory and If So, How?
- 14 Branching and Working Memory
- 15 Working Memory and Natural Syntax
- 16 The Role of Working Memory in Shaping Syntactic Dependency Structures
- 17 Working Memory in the Modular Cognition Framework
- 18 Short-Term and Working Memory Capacity and the Language Device
- Part IV First Language Processing
- Part V Bilingual Acquisition and Processing
- Part VI Language Disorders, Interventions, and Instruction
- Part VII Conclusion
- Index
- References
17 - Working Memory in the Modular Cognition Framework
from Part III - Linguistic Theories and Frameworks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Overview of the Handbook
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Models and Measures
- Part III Linguistic Theories and Frameworks
- 13 Have Grammars Been Shaped by Working Memory and If So, How?
- 14 Branching and Working Memory
- 15 Working Memory and Natural Syntax
- 16 The Role of Working Memory in Shaping Syntactic Dependency Structures
- 17 Working Memory in the Modular Cognition Framework
- 18 Short-Term and Working Memory Capacity and the Language Device
- Part IV First Language Processing
- Part V Bilingual Acquisition and Processing
- Part VI Language Disorders, Interventions, and Instruction
- Part VII Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Working memory, as a cognitive function, needs to be understood within the context of the mind as a whole, in other words within a general framework that can connect it to related research and theory. In this chapter we present one such broad view of the mind, the Modular Cognition Framework (MCF), and apply it to the study of working memory, emphasizing its involvement in language development and use. We consider the nature of working memory as an integral part of the cognitive system, along with working memory capacity, offering a relatively fine-grained, cognitively contextualized account of what working memory is and where the capacity limits come from. This approach provides a means of understanding and further studying a range of phenomena, including the nature and use of metalinguistic knowledge, bilingual language “selection”, code-switching, switch costs and their absence, crosslinguistic influence, optionality in second language learning, and translation and interpreting.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language , pp. 368 - 392Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022