A new research paper led by Yui Suzukida, a GSICS Fellow in the Department of Applied Linguistics, has been published in the prestigious international journal Applied Psycholinguistics.

This study investigated Japanese EFL learners to examine how both auditory acuity (pitch discrimination) and the ability to implicitly extract regularities from sound sequences (pitch statistical learning) relate to second language morphosyntactic acquisition. The findings demonstrate that grammar learning is driven not by simple auditory sharpness, but rather by pattern recognition abilities (statistical learning) that allow learners to derive underlying rules from auditory input.

For more information, please see the published article below:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716426100459.