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Sources of variability in linguistic memory systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2016

MATTHEW W. WAGERS Open the ORCID record for MATTHEW W. WAGERS [Opens in a new window]
MATTHEW W. WAGERS*
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Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Cruz
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Address for correspondence: Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064USAmwagers@ucsc.edu
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The target article makes a strong case that L2 comprehenders recover linguistic representations that are qualitatively similar to those recovered by L1 comprehenders. Moreover as they attempt to link non-adjacent elements, they do so using the same basic mechanism: cue-based retrieval in a content-addressable memory (Van Dyke & Lewis, 2003). In this commentary, I will not address the empirical adequacy of the argument, but instead consider some interesting theoretical challenges it poses for our understanding of working memory in sentence processing.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , August 2017 , pp. 710 - 711
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