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The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 8] 2019
► pp. 23–53

Chapter 2
The Modular Cognition Framework

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
  • Notes