artificial languages

Smart starts: Cognitive differences predict prior knowledge involvement in language learning

Unlike children acquiring their first language (L1), L2/Ln learners can draw on existing grammatical knowledge to ease the task, at least for those properties where the grammars align. This means that, in addition to statistical learning, there might …

Starting from the very beginning: Unraveling third language (L3) development with longitudinal data from artificial language learning and related epistemology

The burgeoning field of third language (L3) acquisition has increasingly focused on intermediate stages of language development, aiming to establish the groundwork for comprehensive models of L3 learning that encompass the entire developmental …

Investigating language learning and morphosyntactic transfer longitudinally using artificial languages

The acquisition of a third language (L3) often involves the transfer of morphosyntactic structures from the first language and/or the second language to the developing L3 grammar, allowing the recycling of previously acquired knowledge (Rothman et …