Memory of Formulaic Language
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15410%2F22%3A73616464" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15410/22:73616464 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL51/02.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL51/02.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Memory of Formulaic Language
Original language description
This contribution revisits the issue of differences between children and adults in their respective levels of language attainment. We start by summarizing how the differences have been explained in nativist and empiricist accounts. Our comparison of the two approaches focuses mainly on the role of input in building linguistic representations in lexical memory. We look at memory encoding at the neuronal level: we review our current knowledge of engrams, the networks of neurons participating in the formation of a new memory. The persistence of a memory (whether non-linguistic or lexical) depends on the strength of its underlying engram, and we list a number offactors that contribute to the strengthening of the connections between participating neurons. Apartfrom a number of factors identified in the extant literature, which we review here, we present one new candidate factor, previously unconsidered in the language acquisition literature. We propose that the strength of a memory trace depends on the learner's belief in the validity of a newly encountered idea. We argue that this factor may account for age effects in language attainment.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics
ISSN
1336-782X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2022
Issue of the periodical within the volume
19
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
18-34
UT code for WoS article
000926444500002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
999