... that brain maturation in parietal regions plays an important role in second language learning. brain maturation cortical thickness grammar learning gray matter volume second language acquisition Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research 024.001.006 The age at which people start to learn...

... facilitated it, but was not strictly necessary. These findings provide a better understanding of the critical mechanisms underlying the human brain’s unique ability to acquire new words rapidly. language acquisition fast mapping semantic grounding Hebbian learning distributed neural assemblies...

... specialization for speech which is compensated for through inhibitory control mechanisms as learning conditions change later in life. critical period event-related brain potentials international adoption language acquisition mismatch negativity Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation 10.13039/501100004722...

..., Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/about_us/legal/notices ) Abstract Although it is clear that early language acquisition can be a target of CNTNAP2, the pathway between gene and language is still largely unknown. This research focused on the mediation...

... of notable differences between L1 and L2 in the students’ linguistic knowledge and in their performance in making past tense forms. The present fMRI study thus successfully elucidates one type of cerebral mechanisms underlying language acquisition, indicating how new linguistic knowledge is acquired...

... in the language acquisition years and the occurrence of delayed reading between the ages of 8 and 10. Method: Participants were 40 children, half of whom had a history of otitis media between the ages of birth and three years and half who were free of the disease. These children, now ages 8-10...

... salient information is a factor in language acquisition. It explains that different representations of the same meaning/concept need not be similarly salient and that salient information is often more truthful than less salient information. Collins Joan Dudai Y Levenson R W Öhman A Wiens S Zajonc R B...

... interplay between language acquisition and change, building a population model which helps us to reason our way through the complex explanatory possibilities for language populations changing in time, analogously to recent practice in evolutionary biology. The Triggering Learning Algorithm approach...

...Studies of early language acquisition in children with perinatal lesions (PL) have all noted a delay in language onset regardless of lesion site. Within this broad context of delay, one study reported an increased delay in comprehension in infants with right posterior injury, and several studies...

... Bybee Jarvella Sachs phoneme acquisition infant learning phoneme discrimination acoustic invariants statistical learning noun gender recency effect structural persistence syntactic priming noticing second language acquisition micro‐learning In Chapter 8 I proposed a functional...

... language acquisition (SLA and TLA). The main areas of research in the fields of TLA and multilingualism, such as the effects of bilingualism on third language learning, are discussed in detail. Subsequently the importance of metalinguistic awareness in multilingual proficiency as one of the emerging...

... making human cognitive origins intuitive decision making language acquisition Decision making seems to be a very private thing: individualized, personal, and confined to the brain. Yet it has a cultural dimension. Culture defines much about the human brain, especially the so-called “higher-order...

...This chapter explores chimpanzees' and bonobos' success in language acquisition. It address why chimpanzees and bonobos succeeded in demonstrating the use and comprehension of language where other animals have failed. It also demonstrates how they learned to understand symbols and human speech...

...This chapter discusses the comparative method of crosslinguistic research on language acquisition. It first considers the comparative method of historical linguistics, which focuses on reconstructing the sounds, words, and grammar of an ancestral language from the linguistic features retained...

... and K'iche' verbs. The chapter discusses the Mayan children's production of the intransitive verb complexes in three moods (indicative, imperative, nominalized) in K'iche', Mam, and Ch'ol. It uses the comparative method to examine how certain pan-Mayan generalizations affect children's language acquisition...

... be put. Language acquisition was conceived of, by enslavers, in strictly economic terms, but it also unlocked the imaginative or narrative capacities of the enslaved. Tom’s escape depended on an ability to speak persuasively, bringing to life an alternative reality for his listeners. Tom weaves a fictive...

... verbs language acquisition action discrimination object motion One aspect of young children's word learning is deciding which sound segment to pair with which concept. The regular occurrence of a word with extralinguistic cues helps children learn many words, including concrete nouns...

... proprioception observation introspection ascriptive immunity to error epistemic authority expressive behaviour language acquisition self-ascriptions truth In the previous chapter, I argued that avowals form a special category of acts: expressive acts, in which subjects directly give voice...

.... An analysis of babies’ language leaning reveals that babies and children do not learn by simple imitation and that there is a methodological problem with research into language acquisition, especially in the interpretation of children’s ability to use and understand words. grammar meaning vocabulary brain...

... tract co articulation categorical perception Marslen Wilson William Warren Paul babies children words language acquisition mental dictionary The average one-year old knows approximately 100 words. The average adult knows between around 60 000 and around 75 000 words, not including variants...