In:The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 8] 2019
► pp. 23–53
Chapter 2The Modular Cognition Framework
Published online: 26 August 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.8.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.8.c2
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.What is a representation?
- 2.1Mental versus neural representations
- 2.2Representations as knowledge
- 2.3Representational schemas
- 3.Modularity
- 3.1Modularity in brain and mind
- 3.2Modules in MCF
- 3.3Locating language within the modular mind
- 3.4Generic sound and generic meaning
- 4.Processing: Activation and memory
- 4.1The story so far
- 4.2Activation within stores
- 4.3Working memory: The ‘state’ view
- 4.4Interfaces
- 4.5Coindexing
- 4.6Resting levels of activation (RLAs)
- 5.Growth
- 5.1Acquisition by processing
- 5.2Language attrition
- 6.The affective system
- 7.Goals
- 8.Self
- 9.The definition of context in the MCF
- 10.MCF architecture summarized
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