Fascinating stuff. People who don't understand Arabic, but have memorised the Qur'an by rote, are better at spotting grammatical errors in Arabic than Arabic language learners who have studied the grammatical rules and inflections in question.
Statistical Learning and the Qur’an — The Ling Space
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To me this implies that our brains have built-in pattern-matching and rule-inferring mechanisms that perform better than our
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The abstract doesn't say anything about individual learning styles. I hope this isn't used as the basis of one-size-fits-all teaching in the future.
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Maybe 48 isn't a big enough sample?
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