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Incidental learning of gender agreement in L2

Denhovska, N. and Serratrice, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5141-6186 (2017) Incidental learning of gender agreement in L2. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 46 (5). pp. 1187-1211. ISSN 0090-6905

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1007/s10936-017-9487-x

Abstract/Summary

Incidental learning of grammar has been an area of interest for many decades; nevertheless, existing research has primarily focused on artificial or semi-artificial languages. The present study examines the incidental acquisition of the grammar of a natural language by exposing adult speakers of an ungendered L1 (English) to the gender agreement patterns in Russian (a language that was novel to the learners). Both receptive and productive knowledge and the mediating role of working memory (WM) in learning were measured. Speakers of the ungendered language were able to successfully acquire receptive but not productive grammatical knowledge in a new language under incidental exposure. WM was engaged in production but not in a grammaticality judgment task in the

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Language and Cognition
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences
Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM)
ID Code:70245
Publisher:Springer

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