Acquisition of conscious and unconscious knowledge of semantic prosody

作者：Guo, Xiuyan; Zheng, Li; Zhu, Lei; Yang, Zhiliang; Chen, Chao; Zhang, Lei; Ma, Wendy; Dienes, Zoltan^*

来源：Consciousness and Cognition, 2011, 20(2): 417-425.

DOI：10.1016/j.concog.2010.06.015

• Semantic prosody
• Implicit learning
• Unconscious knowledge
• Incidental learning
• Intentional learning

An experiment explored the acquisition of conscious and unconscious knowledge of semantic prosody in a second language under incidental and intentional learning conditions. Semantic prosody is the conotational coloring of the semantics of a word, largely uncaptured by dictionary definitions. Contrary to some claims in the literature, we revealed that both conscious and unconscious knowledge were involved in the acquisition of semantic prosody. Intentional learning resulted in similar unconscious but more conscious knowledge than incidental learning. The results are discussed in terms of second language learning and the nature of unconscious knowledge.

• 出版日期2011-6
• 单位华东师范大学; 复旦大学