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Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon
We investigate implicit vocabulary learning by adults who are exposed to a language in their ambient environment. Most New Zealanders do not speak Māori, yet are exposed to it throughout their lifetime. We show that this exposure leads to a large proto-lexicon – implicit knowledge of the existence o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7749111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33339844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4 |
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author | Oh, Y. Todd, S. Beckner, C. Hay, J. King, J. Needle, J. |
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description | We investigate implicit vocabulary learning by adults who are exposed to a language in their ambient environment. Most New Zealanders do not speak Māori, yet are exposed to it throughout their lifetime. We show that this exposure leads to a large proto-lexicon – implicit knowledge of the existence of words and sub-word units without any associated meaning. Despite not explicitly knowing many Māori words, non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders are able to access this proto-lexicon to distinguish Māori words from Māori-like nonwords. What's more, they are able to generalize over the proto-lexicon to generate sophisticated phonotactic knowledge, which lets them evaluate the well-formedness of Māori-like nonwords just as well as fluent Māori speakers. |
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spelling | pubmed-77491112020-12-22 Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon Oh, Y. Todd, S. Beckner, C. Hay, J. King, J. Needle, J. Sci Rep Article We investigate implicit vocabulary learning by adults who are exposed to a language in their ambient environment. Most New Zealanders do not speak Māori, yet are exposed to it throughout their lifetime. We show that this exposure leads to a large proto-lexicon – implicit knowledge of the existence of words and sub-word units without any associated meaning. Despite not explicitly knowing many Māori words, non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders are able to access this proto-lexicon to distinguish Māori words from Māori-like nonwords. What's more, they are able to generalize over the proto-lexicon to generate sophisticated phonotactic knowledge, which lets them evaluate the well-formedness of Māori-like nonwords just as well as fluent Māori speakers. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7749111/ /pubmed/33339844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Oh, Y. Todd, S. Beckner, C. Hay, J. King, J. Needle, J. Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon |
title | Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon |
title_full | Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon |
title_fullStr | Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon |
title_full_unstemmed | Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon |
title_short | Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon |
title_sort | non-māori-speaking new zealanders have a māori proto-lexicon |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7749111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33339844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4 |
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