Constraints on Implicit Learning of Grammatical Form-Meaning Connections  

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Leung, Janny H. C. ; Williams, John N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 62 no. 2 (2012)
Topik: implicit learning; form-meaning connections; vocabulary learning; second language acquisition; animacy; article system
Fulltext: 62_02_Leung.pdf (294.67KB)

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Although there is good evidence for implicit learning of associations between forms, little work has investigated implicit learning of form-meaning connections, and the findings are somewhat contradictory. Two experiments were carried out using a novel reaction time methodology to investigate implicit learning of grammatical form-meaning connections. Participants learned four novel articles but were not told about a critical semantic factor that determines agreement with the accompanying noun. Their task was to indicate as quickly as possiblewhich of two pictureswas being referred to by an articlenoun combination. The measure of learning was whether response times would slow downwhen the agreement rulewas violated (i.e.,when the wrong articlewas used for the picture being referred to). Experiment 1 revealed such an effect when articles correlated with noun animacy, even for participants with no reported awareness of this regularity. In Experiment 2 no such effect was obtained when the regularity concerned the relative size of two objects. It is concluded that grammatical form-meaning connections may be learned implicitly, but learning is constrained by the nature of the meaning involved. It is argued that concepts are differentially available to implicit language learning processes

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