Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon

Abstract 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 ex...

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Autores principales:	Y. Oh, S. Todd, C. Beckner, J. Hay, J. King, J. Needle
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2020
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e9fbcba6adda49ccb8c0c8abd7b9651d2021-12-02T13:58:10ZNon-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon10.1038/s41598-020-78810-42045-2322https://doaj.org/article/e9fbcba6adda49ccb8c0c8abd7b9651d2020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract 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.Y. OhS. ToddC. BecknerJ. HayJ. KingJ. NeedleNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020)
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description	Abstract 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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title	Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon
title_short	Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon
title_full	Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon
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Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon

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