A Quantum-Cognition Approach to the Study of Second Language Acquisition = A Quantum-Cognition Approach to the Study of Second Language Acquisition

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this paper, I want to draw attention to the fact that . following other linguistic disciplines such as Semantics, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval - Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research could also benefit from a quantum-cognition approach. In order to illustrate the potential of a future collaboration between SLA and quantum-cognition, I describe a case-study demonstrating a quantum effect in SLA, namely, the superposition of a grammatical and a statistical rule of noun-article agreement. I argue that a second language (L2) competence - like other phenomena in both nature and the human mind - is measurement-dependent, meaning that we can access it only contextually and probabilistically.

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