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Declarative memory system
Lexical/Declarative
Memory
-All word-specific information
-Stored complex structures (walked)
-Declarative memory based rules
Language
Grammar
Little or nothing learned and processed here
Procedural memory system
Declarative/Procedural Theory:
Low L2 Experience
Second Language
The declarative/procedural model claims that Lexicon is dependent on temporal lobe strucutres which also subserve declarative memory; memory for events and associative memory
on the other hand, grammar is dependent on frontal/basal ganglia circuits which also subserve procedural memory- motor skills and sequence computaitons