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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
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Official URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-78810-4
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 | ||||||
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 December 2020 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
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