Cognitive Factors in Learning about Structured Sequences: Applications to Syntax.

Carr, Thomas H.; Curran, Tim

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ERIC Number: EJ488044

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1994

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Cognitive Factors in Learning about Structured Sequences: Applications to Syntax.

Carr, Thomas H.; Curran, Tim

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, v16 n2 p205-30 Jun 1994

Addressed three issues in a description of techniques used to study how people learn structured sequences. These are the content of what is learned, the role of conscious awareness in syntactic learning, and the role of limited-capacity processing or focal attention in syntactic learning. (Contains 86 references.) (Author)

Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Fixed Sequence, Language Processing, Perception, Second Language Learning, Stimuli, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Syntax, Text Structure

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Cognitive Foundations of Second Language Acquisition.