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Mori, Kazuo; Moeser, Shannon D. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1983
Discusses research which suggests that language learning occurs by learning the regularities inherent in the semantic system and not by learning any regularities present in the syntax system. (EKN)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Cognitive Style, Language Research, Language Universals
Green, T. R. G. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Presents evidence from artificial language experiments in support of the "marker hypothesis," i.e., that natural languages contain elements that signal the presence of syntactic constructions and that the absence of such markers would render a language virtually unusable. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Determiners (Languages), Function Words, Grammar
