The Implicit Learning of Mappings between Forms and Contextually Derived Meanings
Second Language Acquisition, 33:1, pp. 33-55, 2011
24 Pages Posted: 13 Jun 2014
Date Written: June 11, 2011
Abstract
The traditional implicit learning literature focused primarily on the abstraction of statistical regularities in form-form connections. More attention has been directed toward the implicit learning of form-meaning connections recently, 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 method- ology. The results conclude that contextually derived form-meaning connections might be implicitly learned.
Keywords: form-meaning connections, implicit learning, language, second language acquisition, thematic roles
JEL Classification: Z00
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