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

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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 ISSN 2045-2322.

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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
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18 December 2020Published
30 November 2020Accepted
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)
Date of first compliant deposit: 21 December 2020
Date of first compliant Open Access: 22 December 2020
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