Wewould like to begin by offering a new theoretical account of the duration-based part of the word length effect, inspired partly by the recent literature and partly by Service’s comments (this issue). Baddeley (1986) suggested that recall depends on the speed of a covert verbal rehearsal process. Cowan and colleagues have argued that it may, but that recall also depends on the speed of some so...

In recent years, a number of memory span findings have been attributed to the operation of an articulatory loop (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974). These attributions have been made on the basis of finding a correspondence between span differences and pronunciation rate differences. This experiment explored articulatory loop explanations for two material effects in memory span: the word-frequency effect ...

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This paper argues that working memory is heavily involved in language acquisition as (a) a major part of language lear ning is the learning of sequences, (b) working memory allow s short-term maintenance of sequence information, and (c) short-term rehearsa l of sequences promotes the consolidation of long-term memories of language sequences. It ® rst review s evidence supporting this position. ...