Long-term memory predictors of adult language learning at the interface between syntactic form and meaning.

ABSTRACT: Recent neurocognitive models of second language learning have posited specific roles for declarative and procedural memory in the processing of novel linguistic stimuli. Pursuing this line of investigation, the present exploratory study examined the role of declarative and procedural memory abilities in the early stages of adult comprehension of sentences in a miniature language with natural language characteristics (BrocantoJ). Thirty-six native Italian young adults were aurally exposed to BrocantoJ in the context of a computer game over three sessions on consecutive days. Following vocabulary training and passive exposure, participants were asked to perform game moves described by aural sentences in the language. Game trials differed with respect to the information the visual context off

SUBMITTER: Pili-Moss D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9529097 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature