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Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology
2015. Vol. 4, no. 4, 30–38
doi:10.17759/jmfp.2015040405
ISSN: 2304-4977 (online)

Linguistic abilities and its cognitive determinants: contemporary research perspectives

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E.V. Gavrilova

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Abstract

The article presents contemporary studies of linguistic abilities in psychology. The different approaches to the linguistic abilities structure are discussed in relation to empirical results on peculiarities of the second language mastering. The special attention is paid to the cognitive determinants of linguistic abilities. So the empirical data concerning the interaction between language-aptitude test scores and different abilities, e.g. verbal intelligence and working memory, are analyzed in more details. In the conclusion the research perspectives in different cognitive processes which determine the efficiency of the second language mastery are discussed.

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Keywords: linguistic abilities, cognitive determinants, the second language mastery.

Journal rubric: General Psychology

Article type: review article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/jmfp.2015040405

For citation: Gavrilova E.V. Linguistic abilities and its cognitive determinants: contemporary research perspectives [Elektronnyi resurs]. Sovremennaia zarubezhnaia psikhologiia = Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology, 2015. Vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 30–38. DOI: 10.17759/jmfp.2015040405. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Evgeniya V. Gavrilova, PhD in Psychology, Research Fellow, Centre of Applied Researches in Psychology and Education, Moscow State University of psychology and education (MSUPE), Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0848-3839, e-mail: gavrilovaev@mgppu.ru

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