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McDonough, Kim; Trofimovich, Pavel – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study investigated whether second language (L2) speakers' morphosyntactic pattern learning was predicted by their statistical learning and working memory abilities. Across three experiments, Thai English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students (N = 140) were exposed to either the transitive construction in Esperanto (e.g., "tauro…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Artificial Languages, Language Patterns, Second Language Learning
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McDonough, Kim; Kim, Youjin – Modern Language Journal, 2009
Previous interaction studies have reported a positive relationship between syntactic priming and English second language (L2) learners' subsequent production of "wh"-questions. Syntactic priming research has shown that a speaker's production of a structure during syntactic priming activities is influenced by the individual lexical items that occur…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning