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- language acquisition as a form of cognitive skill
- comparable to other cognitive skills
- key processes in skill learning are
  automatisation
  restructing - revision rules that may result in decline performance
  processing - optimal performance recquires in mixture of both
  - automatic processing (lacks flexibility, nor origional)
  - controlled processing

- two sorts of knowledge
  - declarative knowledge - knowledge you learn at school
  - procedual knowledge - the ability to perform

- influencal are salience an dfrequency of input and processability
- more complex structures are acquired after simple ones