FMRI evidence for the involvement of the procedural memory system in morphological processing of a second language.

Behavioural evidence suggests that English regular past tense forms are automatically decomposed into their stem and affix (played  = play+ed) based on an implicit linguistic rule, which does not apply to the idiosyncratically formed irregular forms (kept). Additionally, regular, but not irregular i...

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Main Authors: Christos Pliatsikas, Tom Johnstone, Theodoros Marinis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4018348?pdf=render