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Working memory and language: From phonology to grammar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2017

William O'Grady
William O'Grady*
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University of Hawai'I at Manoa
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Pierce, Genesee, Delcenserie, and Morgan (2017) are right to suggest that working memory is a crucial part of the machinery underlying linguistic development. In this brief commentary, I will move beyond the emergence of phonological representations, on which Pierce et al.’s essay focuses, and consider ways in which working memory shapes the character and acquisition of grammatical phenomena, a topic that has been explored in various ways in the recent literature (e.g., Chater & Christiansen, 2010; Hawkins, 2014; O'Grady, 2005, 2015).

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , November 2017 , pp. 1340 - 1343
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