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Direct linkJohn N. Williams; Yuyan Xue – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Is it possible to acquire a sensitivity to a regularity in language without intending to and without awareness of what it is? In this conceptual replication and extension of an earlier study (Williams, 2005) participants were trained on a semiartificial language in which determiner choice was dependent on noun animacy. Participants who did not…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Artificial Languages, Intuition, Nouns
Reali, Florencia; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2005
The poverty of stimulus argument is one of the most controversial arguments in the study of language acquisition. Here we follow previous approaches challenging the assumption of impoverished primary linguistic data, focusing on the specific problem of auxiliary (AUX) fronting in complex polar interrogatives. We develop a series of corpus analyses…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Grammar, Sentence Structure, Stimulus Generalization
