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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
Moeser, Shannon Dawn – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
College students were presented with an artificial language in which spoken nonsense words were correlated with visual references. Inferences regarding vocabulary acquisition were drawn, and it was suggested that the processing of the language was mediated through a semantic memory system. (CK)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Language Learning Levels, Memory, Second Language Learning