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Publication details [#65489]

Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, Katarzyna, Marta Marecka, Jakub Szewczyk, Anna Jelec, Donata Janiszewska and Karolina Rataj. 2018. Different phonological mechanisms facilitate vocabulary learning at early and late stages of language acquisition: Evidence from Polish 9-year-olds learning English. Applied Psycholinguistics 39 (1) : 1–35.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

memory | phonology1 | psycholinguistics | second language acquisition | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

English | Polish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

To learn a novel word, learners must make its agency in phonological short-term memory (STM) and then codify it in their long-term memory. Two tactics can empower word agency in STM: language universal segmentation and language specific phonological mapping.