Oh, Yoonmi, Todd, Simon, Beckner, Clay, Hay, Jennifer, King, Jeanette and Needle, Jeremy (2020) Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon. Scientific Reports, 10 . 22318. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4 ISSN 2045-2322.
Preview |
PDF
WRAP-Non-Māori-speaking-New-Zealanders-Māori-proto-lexicon-Beckner-2020.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download (1MB) | Preview |
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DU Oceania (South Seas) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | New Zealanders, New Zealanders -- Languages , Maori (New Zealand people) , Maori language , Bilingualism -- New Zealand |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Scientific Reports |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Official Date: | 18 December 2020 |
| Dates: | Date Event 18 December 2020 Published 30 November 2020 Accepted |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Article Number: | 22318 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons open licence) |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 December 2020 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 December 2020 |
| Open Access Version: | |
| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/146238/ |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |