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Morgan, James L.; Newport, Elissa L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1981
Describes an experiment where subjects were exposed to a sample of sentences from an artificial linguistic system and tested on their knowledge of the linear and hierarchical structures of the language. Suggests that learners succeed in inducing coherent grammatical systems only when input provides enough correlated cues to constituent…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Experimental Psychology, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Potter, Mary C.; Faulconer, Barbara A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
An experiment investigated the retrieval processes involving a noun with an adjective. Results suggest that a noun's meaning is retrieved in conjunction with an adjective when the phrase describes a familiar concept. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Language Processing
Pinker, Steven; Birdsong, David – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Two studies elicited native speaker and nonnative speaker judgments regarding preferred word order of the idioms known as "freezes." The results support the notion that rules of frozen word order are psychologically real and reflect universal language rules. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, French, Grammar, Idioms
