Behavioural evidence suggests that English regular past tense forms are automatically decomposed into their stem and affix (played  = play+ed) based on an implicit linguistic rule, which does not apply to the idiosyncratically formed irregular forms (kept). Additionally, regular, but not irregular inflections, are thought to be processed through the procedural memory system (left inferior front...

Abstract This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of collaborative form-focused activities on grammar learning of elementary EFL learners. To this end, 58 adult male Iranian EFL learners at elementary level of proficiency in three classes of language institutes were chosen. They formed the three groups of the study. The grammar section of Cambridge Michigan Placement test was used to...

Abstract This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of collaborative form-focused activities on grammar learning of elementary EFL learners. To this end, 58 adult male Iranian EFL learners at elementary level of proficiency in three classes of language institutes were chosen. They formed the three groups of the study. The grammar section of Cambridge Michigan Placement test was used to...

This study was conducted to investigate the influence of teaching accurate grammar inwriting via enriched long text and short text for the elementary students atShokouhe_Farhang institute. The homogenized subjects were divided into two groups of 18and 17 participants. Using a writing exam as a pretest in order to check the students’knowledge in English past tense. The control group received the...

mine the nature of mental computation. Over the last decade the focus of this debate has been the contrast between classical views of mental computation, seen as the rule-based manipulation of strings of symbols with a syntax, as opposed to more distributed systems, operating subsymbolically and without syntax. Despite the pervasive and crucial nature of this debate, it has nonetheless been har...

Williams (1981) and others (e.g., Kiparsky 1983; Pinker & Prince 1987) have noted that new verbs which are semantically extended from nouns take the regular past-tense (as in the baseball sense of fly ), while verbs extended from an irregular verb inherit the irregular past-tense marker, as happens with compounding and affixation (e.g. oversleep ). This type of data has motivated the view that ...

Recently there has been a large literature on various approaches to learning morphology, and the success and cognitive plausibility of different approaches (Rumelhart and McClelland (1986), MacWhinney and Leinbach (1991) arguing for connectionist models, Pinker and Prince (1988), Lachter and Bever (1988), Marcus et al. (1992) arguing against connectionist models, Ling and Marinov (1993), Ling (...