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    "pk": 26383,
    "title": "The Influence of Language-specific Auditory Cues on the Learnability of\nCenter-embedded Recursion",
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    "abstract": "The learnability of center-embedded recursive structures has\nattracted much attention (Corballis, 2007; Friederici, 2004;\nRey, Perruchet, & Fagot, 2012). However, most of the\nprevious studies adopted the artificial grammar learning\nparadigm (Reber, 1967) and did not apply natural language\nstimuli. Rather, they applied synthetic meaningless training\nmaterials, which hardly represent the richness and complexity\nof natural language. Accordingly, in the current study, we\nattempt to tighten the link between artificial language learning\nand natural language acquisition in the auditory modality, by\nenriching our learning environment with phonological cues\nthat occur in natural, spoken information; in particular,\nChinese tones. In a grammaticality judgment task, we\nexamined the syntactical processing by participants from\ndifferent language backgrounds. Through the cross-language\ncomparison between Chinese and Dutch native speakers, we\naim to test the influence of language-specific phonological\ncues on processing complex linguistic structures. The results\nshowed that tones had a more beneficial learning effect for\nChinese than for Dutch participants. In other words, when\nparticipants learned a new language, they were likely to bring\ntheir own language routines implicitly from the familiar\nnative language into processing the unfamiliar one.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Phonological cues; Language-specific; Artificial\nlanguage; Syntactical processing; Auditory modality"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04z4m945",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jun",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lai",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Chiara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "de Jong",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Dingguo",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gao",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Sun Yat-sen University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ren",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Huang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Sun Yat-sen University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Emiel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Krahmer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Sprenger",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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