Implicit learning of semantic preferences of English words by Chinese learners |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of English Education, Kyungpook National University Teachers College, 80 Daehakro Bukgu, Daegu 702-701, South Korea;2. Department of Physical Education, Kyungpook National University Teachers College, South Korea;1. School of Psychological and Social Sciences, York St. John University, Lord Mayor’s Walk, York YO31 7EX, United Kingdom;2. Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | The aim of the present study was to explore whether Chinese learners could implicitly learn the semantic preferences of novel English words. In training, participants learned four novel verbs and were exposed to a set of verb-noun phrases that included these new words. What the participants were not told was that the use of the verbs depended on the concreteness of the nouns (i.e., the semantic preference rule). In testing, participants were required to choose between two possible verbs (one of which violated the semantic preference rule) for nouns that never occurred in training. The results showed that participants acquired unconscious knowledge of semantic preferences under incidental learning conditions, as measured by verbal reports and structural knowledge attributions. Our results provide further evidence for implicit learning of semantic preferences, suggesting that implicit learning is an important mechanism in the acquisition of L2 collocations. |
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Keywords: | Semantic preference Implicit learning Unconscious knowledge Second language acquisition |
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