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The Role of Prior Experience in Language Acquisition
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Lany, Jill; Gomez, Rebecca L.; Gerken, Lou Ann – Cognitive Science, 2007
Learners exposed to an artificial language recognize its abstract structural regularities when instantiated in a novel vocabulary (e.g., Gomez, Gerken, & Schvaneveldt, 2000; Tunney & Altmann, 2001). We asked whether such sensitivity accelerates subsequent learning, and enables acquisition of more complex structure. In Experiment 1, pre-exposure to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonology, Artificial Languages, Prior Learning