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    Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon (2020)

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    https://hdl.handle.net/10092/101993
    
    Publisher's DOI/URI
    http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78810-4
    
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    Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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    2045-2322
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    Authors
    Oh Y
    Needle J
    Todd, Simon cc
    Beckner, Clay cc
    Hay, Jennifer cc
    King, Jeanette cc
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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.

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    Oh Y, Todd S, Beckner C, Hay J, King J, Needle J (2020). Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 22318-.
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    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    47 - Language, communication and culture::4704 - Linguistics::470411 - Sociolinguistics
    47 - Language, communication and culture::4704 - Linguistics::470401 - Applied linguistics and educational linguistics
    45 - Indigenous studies::4507 - Te ahurea, reo me te hītori o te Māori (Māori culture, language and history)::450712 - Te mātai i te reo Māori me te reo Māori (Māori linguistics and languages)
    Ngā Upoko Tukutuku / Māori Subject Headings
    Reo Māori | Reo rangatira; Te reo Māori; Te reo rangatira; Māori language::Matareo | Language learning; Language teaching
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651

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