APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Brains of Second-Language Learners Show Transfer of Grammatical Rules to Unstudied Languages
- Margarita Zeitlin
University of Washington - Judith McLaughlin
University of Washington - Jerimiah Rice
University of Washington - Lee Osterhout
University of Washington
Abstract
Native English learners can acquire the unfamiliar grammatical rule of gender agreement in Italian by generalizing knowledge from item-based information to language-wide principles. In a novel result, these learners can further transfer knowledge of this grammatical rule to a previously unstudied, but typologically similar language, Spanish.
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