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9. '''Acquisition by Processing'''. Change (development, acquisition, growth) occurs as a result of online processing. This principle is reflected in the following statement: ''acquisition is the lingering effect of processing'' (Truscott and Sharwood Smith 2004a) <ref>Truscott, J & M. Sharwood Smith. (2004a). Acquisition by processing: a modular perspective on language development. ''Bilingualism: Language and Cognition'' 7,1, 1-2. </ref>, (Truscott and Sharwood Smith 2004).<ref>Truscott, J & M. Sharwood Smith. (2004). How APT is your theory: present status and future prospects. ''Bilingualism: Language and Cognition'' 7,1,43-47.</ref>
9. '''Variable Activation Levels'''. Cognitive representations are activated online to different degrees and may compete with one another for participation in the building of a more complex representations online. This is partly because they possess a '''resting level of activation''' which will rise or decline according to the frequency and regularity with which they are activated. Extremely high levels of activation are associated with phenomena described variously as ''attention'',
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