The term "formulaic sequence" (FS) is used with a multiplicity of meanings in the SLA literature, some overlapping but others not, and researchers are not always clear in defining precisely what they are investigating, or in limiting the implicational domain of their findings to the type of formulaicity they focus on. The first part of…

Using a miniature linguistic system with five morphological rules and a 98-word lexicon, this experiment determined that explicit-deductive learning was more effective than implicit-inductive learning for the acquisition of categorical rules by 61 college student subjects. (87 references) (MDM)