Bolibaugh, Cylcia orcid.org/0000-0001-7500-264X and Foster, Pauline (2021) Implicit Statistical Learning in Naturalistic and Instructed Morphosyntactic Attainment: An Aptitude‐Treatment Interaction Design. Language Learning. pp. 959-1003. ISSN 0023-8333
Abstract
We investigated the potential influence of implicit learning mechanisms on L2 morphosyntactic attainment by examining the relationship between age of onset (AoO), two cognitive abilities hypothesized to underlie implicit learning (phonological short-term memory and implicit statistical learning), and performance on an auditory grammaticality judgment test (GJT). Participants were 71 Polish-English long-term bilinguals with a wide range of AoOs (1–35 years) who differed in their context of learning and use (immersed vs. instructed). In immersed learners, we observed a growing dissociation between performance on grammatical and ungrammatical sentences as AoO was delayed. This effect was attenuated in those with better phonological short-term memory and statistical learning abilities and is consistent with a decline in the ability to learn from implicit negative evidence. In instructed learners, GJT performance was subject to additive effects of AoO and grammaticality and was not associated with either cognitive predictor, suggesting that implicit learning mechanisms were not involved.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. |
Keywords: | age effects,statistical learning,implicit learning,phonological short-term memory,grammaticality judgement |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Education (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2021 14:40 |
Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2025 00:17 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12465 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/lang.12465 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:178251 |