Zur Spezialisierung des Arbeitsgedächtnisses auf die Satzverarbeitungsprozesse

Jolanta Sękowska

doi:10.18778/1427-9665.11.08

Authors

Jolanta Sękowska Maria-Curie-Skłodowska-Universität, Humanistische Fakultät, Institut für Germanistik und Angewandte Linguistik

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9665.11.08

Keywords:

Modularity, sentence processing, sentence comprehension, working memory, domain specificity

Abstract

Constructing dependency relations, in particular subject-verb agreement, in languages in which verbs may occupy the final position in the sentence, requires a combination of newly appearing lexical items with the existing context, such that it extends beyond the limits of the phrase. New words can be integrated only if the part of the sentence that has already been processed remains in a state of activation, being open to receive new elements. This article focuses on the question of the specificity for the domain of linguistic knowledge of the working memory, as the cognitive system in which representations are temporarily stored and manipulated.

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