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Hudson Kam, Carla L.; Chang, Ann – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
When language learners are exposed to inconsistent probabilistic grammatical patterns, they sometimes impose consistency on the language instead of learning the variation veridically. The authors hypothesized that this regularization results from problems with word retrieval rather than from learning per se. One prediction of this, that easing the…
Descriptors: Probability, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Language Processing