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Schuler, Kathryn Dolores – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In natural language, evidence suggests that, while some rules are productive (regular), applying broadly to new words, others are restricted to a specific set of lexical items (irregular). Further, the literature suggests that children make a categorical distinction between regular and irregular rules, applying only regular rules productively…
Descriptors: Prediction, Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition, Grammar
Linck, Jared A.; Hughes, Meredith M.; Campbell, Susan G.; Silbert, Noah H.; Tare, Medha; Jackson, Scott R.; Smith, Benjamin K.; Bunting, Michael F.; Doughty, Catherine J. – Language Learning, 2013
Few adult second language (L2) learners successfully attain high-level proficiency. Although decades of research on beginning to intermediate stages of L2 learning have identified a number of predictors of the rate of acquisition, little research has examined factors relevant to predicting very high levels of L2 proficiency. The current study,…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Canner, Marc T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the relationships between working memory (WM) and three commonly used learning strategies or conditions in the nature of proficiency among adult L2 Russian learners. Based on the aptitude-learning condition interaction framework articulated by Robinson (2002b), the study identifies two types of…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Russian, Accuracy, Language Fluency
Mandler, Jean M.; DeForest, Marsha – 1977
After presenting a brief description of the principles of a story grammar, some experimental results are summarized to illustrate the power of story schemata in controlling recall. Specially constructed versions of four stories were used with second, fourth, and sixth graders and in a second experiment with adults. One version of each story was…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Education
Huttenlocher, Janellen; Newcombe, Nora – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
Reports on 5 experiments investigating the effect of blocking words according to semantic category on ordered recall in adults and young children. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing
Pressley, Michael; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Results of five experiments in which adults and children were exposed to two study strategies for vocabulary learning: (1) repetition of words with meanings and (2) associative elaboration (the keyword method). Subjects were asked to choose one of the two study methods for learning a 24-item list of new vocabulary words. (SL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Tests

Robbins, Scarlett L. – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1992
Presents a neurobiologically inspired model of one aspect of adult second language acquisition: procedural linguistic skill acquisition. Notes that the proposed model crucially involves the neural circuitry of the neocerebellum, a brain structure implicated in higher cognitive and, potentially, linguistic functions. (69 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adults, Biological Sciences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes

Siple, Patricia; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1982
The role of sensory attributes in a vocabulary learning task was investigated for a non-oral language using deaf and hearing individuals, more or less skilled in the use of sign language. Skilled signers encoded invented signs in terms of linguistic structure rather than as visual-pictorial events. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adults, American Sign Language, Deafness, Error Analysis (Language)

Atkins, Paul W. B.; Baddeley, Alan D. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
Tested the hypothesis that individual differences in immediate-verbal-memory span predict success in second-language vocabulary acquisition. In the two-session study, adult subjects learned 56 English-Finnish translations. Tested one week later, subjects were less likely to remember those words they had difficulty learning, even though they had…
Descriptors: Adults, English, Finnish, Individual Differences
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Ed.; O'Brien, Nancy, Ed. – 1985
One of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications, this report covers the period January 1 to March 31, 1985. Studies summarized in the report cover such topics as (1) segmentation of coarticulated speech in perception (2) intrinsic time in…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Adults, Articulation (Speech), Cognitive Processes
Haskins Labs., New Haven, CT. – 1982
Research reports on the nature of speech, instrumentation for the investigation of speech, and practical applications of speech research are presented in this status report. The 18 reports deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) cyclic production of vowels in sequences of monosyllabic stress feet; (2) differences between…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Children