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

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
    • الموضوع:
      2020
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      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.
    • File Description:
      application/pdf
    • ISSN:
      2045-2322
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4
    • Rights:
      OPEN
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsair.doi.dedup.....8c50eaecbd6fade1905b58c6b2948353