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Inductive Language Learning Flashcards

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  1. A learner correctly identifies that in a sample language, adjectives always follow nouns. After seeing only 4 examples, they apply this correctly to 20 new sentences. This result best predicts:

    Answer: High inductive language learning ability

    Successfully generalizing a structural rule from minimal exposure to many new cases is a hallmark of high inductive language learning ability.

  2. How does the MLAT's inductive language learning section differ from a standard grammar test?

    Answer: It measures ability to discover grammar rules independently from novel language samples

    The MLAT presents an unfamiliar artificial language and measures spontaneous rule discovery, not recall of previously learned grammar.

  3. In an artificial language: 'tamo = I eat, tamos = I ate, riko = I drink, rikos = I drank.' The '-s' suffix marks:

    Answer: Past tense

    The '-s' suffix consistently transforms a present-tense verb to past tense across both examples.

  4. Which finding from aptitude research best supports the importance of inductive learning in the MLAT?

    Answer: High MLAT scorers learn foreign languages faster even in informal immersion settings

    High MLAT scorers outperform others even in informal immersion, where inductive pattern extraction from input is the primary learning mechanism.

  5. Given: 'luna = moon, lunado = moonlit, sol = sun, solado = sunlit.' What does 'nublado' likely mean if 'nubla = cloud'?

    Answer: Cloudy or overcast

    The '-do' suffix consistently creates an adjective meaning 'lit by' or 'characterized by' the noun, so 'nublado' = cloudy.

  6. A test-taker who scores high on inductive language learning but low on rote learning would MOST likely excel in which foreign language situation?

    Answer: Picking up conversational grammar through daily interaction with native speakers

    High inductive aptitude enables learning grammar organically from conversational exposure, compensating for weaker rote memory.

  7. In an MLAT sample language, 'veka' = 'old woman' and 'veko' = 'old man.' A new word 'neka' appears. Based on the pattern, 'neko' most likely refers to:

    Answer: A young man

    The '-a' ending marks feminine and '-o' marks masculine in this language, so 'neko' is the masculine counterpart of 'neka.'