title: Acquisition of conscious and unconscious knowledge of semantic prosody.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, No.3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai 200062, China.
authors.forename: Xiuyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Zhiliang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Zoltan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Dienes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003243:Consciousness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D014474:Unconsciousness; D055815:Young Adult