The effective stimulus in serial rote learning

1960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K. Young
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly M. Fenn ◽  
Daniel Margoliash ◽  
Howard C. Nusbaum

Author(s):  
Stefano Rastelli

Abstract This article suggests a method to appraise L2 morphemes productivity in longitudinal learner data. Traditionally, morpheme productivity is believed to depend on type frequency and on proportion between inflected and uninflected lexemes. However, such measures cannot distinguish between rote-learning and rule-learning of target-like forms. In contrast, the association measure ΔP (delta pi) can quantify the extent to which a morpheme is contingent upon a limited number of lexemes. Decreasing contingency might parallel learners’ increasing awareness of asymmetrical morpheme-lexeme distribution in the input and this might be a cue of developing L2 grammatical competence beyond appearances. The paper presents the rationale and procedure for analyzing within-item variance – or the ‘intra-language’ – and illustrates a case-study concerning the perfective morpheme in L2 Italian.


1967 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Newton C. Ellis ◽  
Winton H. Manning

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