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| Title: | The Implicit Learning of Mappings between Forms and Contextually Derived Meanings |
| Author: | Janny H. C. Leung |
| Institution: | University of Hong Kong |
| Author: | John N. Williams |
| Institution: | Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics University of Cambridge |
| Linguistic Field: | Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics |
| Abstract: | The traditional implicit learning literature has focused primarily on the abstraction of statistical regularities in form-form connections. More attention has been recently directed toward the implicit learning of form-meaning connections, which might be crucial in the acquisition of natural languages. The current article reports evidence for implicit learning of a mapping between a novel set of determiners and thematic roles, obtained using a newly developed reaction time methodology. The results conclude that contextually derived form-meaning connections might be implicitly learned. |
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This article appears in Studies in Second Language Acquisition Vol. 33, Issue 1, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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