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Ko te mōhiotanga huna o te hunga kore kōrero i te reo Māori (The implicit knowledge of non-Māori speakers)
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Hay, Jennifer, King, Jeanette, Todd, Simon, Panther, Forrest, Mattingley, Wakayo, Oh, Yoon Mi, Beckner, Clay, Needle, Jeremy and Keegan, Peter (2022) Ko te mōhiotanga huna o te hunga kore kōrero i te reo Māori (The implicit knowledge of non-Māori speakers). Te Reo, 65 (1). pp. 42-59. ISSN 2703-4135.
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Abstract
This article outlines recent experiments on the implicit knowledge of non-Māori speakers living in New Zealand. It expands on the work of Oh et al. (2020) who show that, despite not knowing the language, non-Māori speakers have impressive phonotactic and lexical knowledge, which has presumably been built through ambient exposure to the language. In this paper, we extend this work by investigating morphological and syntactic knowledge. Experiment 1 asks non-Māori speakers to morphologically segment Māori words. It shows that they have an impressive degree of ability to recognize Māori morphs, and also that their false segmentations are in the locations that are phonotactically most likely to be morpheme boundaries. Experiment 2 asks non-Māori speakers to rate the likelihood that Māori sentences are grammatical. They rate grammatical Māori sentences significantly higher than matched sentences containing the same words in the wrong order. Their error patterns reveal significant sensitivity to legal versus non-legal sentence endings. Taken together, the results reveal that ambient exposure to te reo Māori leads to extensive subconscious knowledge regarding te reo Māori, and provide a strong real-world example of implicit language learning.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | 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): | Māori language, Māori language -- Morphology, Māori language -- Syntax, Māori language -- Phonology , Māori language -- Lexicology, Second language acquisition | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Te Reo | ||||||
| Publisher: | Linguistic Society of New Zealand | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2703-4135 | ||||||
| Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 65 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 42-59 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Free Access (unspecified licence, 'bronze OA') | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | ©Te Reo – The Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 August 2023 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 August 2023 | ||||||
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