Working Memory and Language Processing
Abstract
Language processing is an important part of psycholinguistic research which mainly focus on the factors aff ecting the processing process.Among them, working memory is one of the important factors aff ecting the process of sentence processing.Starting from the concept and characteristics of working memory, this article elaborates the relevant theories of working memory and the infl uence of individual diff erences in working memory breadth on sentence processing, and fi nally puts forward the prospect of future research.
Keywords
Working;Memory; Language processing
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i24.10070
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