Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

The paradigm of immediate serial recall (Baddeley, 1986) has been used extensively in investigation of working m e m o r y , but its relation to and implica- tions for the nature of phonological processing have seldom been examined. W e show thatfindings from this domain can be interpreted in two ways, and relate these two interpretations to a simple model of phono- logical processing. One interpretation emphasizes the availability of infonnation from "output" phono- logical processing to "input" phonological process- ing, while the alternative account stipulates no such connections. On the basis of an experimental study designed to choose between the two accounts, w e tentatively conclude that the interpretation suggest- ing output-input connectivity is supported. Estab- lishment of this result would be of considerable in- terest, since it indicates that processes in language production can impact directly on processes in lan- guage perception.