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Children's Learning of Unfamiliar Phonological Sequences
Eero SalinJorma Kuusinensubject
060201 languages & linguisticsCommunicationGrammarbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectFirst languageNonsenseExperimental and Cognitive Psychology06 humanities and the artsLanguage acquisitionSensory SystemsLinguisticsPhonological ruleSecond language0602 languages and literatureLearning theoryGrammaticalitybusinessPsychologymedia_commondescription
4 groups of 15 4-, 6-, 8-, and 10-yr.-old children learned nonsense phonological sequences that varied in grammaticality by violating 0, 1, or 2 phonological rules of Ss' native language. The youngest age group made fewer errors in learning the most nongrammatical phonological sequences than in learning grammatical ones. With the 10- and 8-yr.-olds an opposite trend was found. The differences were not statistically significant. Implications for second language learning were discussed.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-10-01 | Perceptual and Motor Skills |