Attentional and Immediate Memory Capacity Limitations in the Acquisition of Non-Native Linguistic Contrasts

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2585-2590

  Schoenherr, Jordan ^a   Logan, John ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

category boundaries; confidence processing; second language acquisition; speech perception

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

CAPACITY LIMITATION; CATEGORY BOUNDARY; CONFIDENCE PROCESSING; MEMORY CAPACITY; NON-NATIVE; PERFORMANCE; PROPERTY; SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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