Understanding bilingual memory: Models and data
Category
Journal Article
Authors
French, R. M., Jacquet, M.
Year
2004
Title
Understanding bilingual memory: Models and data
Journal / book / conference
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Abstract
Bilingual memory research in the past decade and, particularly, in the past five years, has developed a range of sophisticated experimental, neuropsychological and computational techniques that have allowed researchers to begin to answer some of the major long-standing questions of the field. We explore bilingual memory along the lines of the conceptual division of language knowledge and organization, on the one hand, and the mechanisms that operate on that knowledge and organization, on the other. Various interactive-activation and connectionist models of bilingual memory that attempt to incorporate both organizational and operational considerations will serve to bridge these two divisions. Much progress has been made in recent years in bilingual memory research, which also serves to illuminate general (language-independent) memory processes.
Issue
2
Volume
8
Pages
87-93