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Infant language learning is implicit because once a child learns a word, they don’t remember how or when they learned it, they just remember it and eventually learn a sufficient amount to communicate. The book gives the definition of implicit learning being unconscious (p. 90). An example that the book gives where this pertains to language learning in children is that children who pay attention to where an adult is looking often have an easier time associating an object with a word (p. 401). The children most likely aren’t consciously looking at the adult and the object, they are doing it without realizing it, and when you ask them how they learned the word, they probably won’t be able to pin-point it.
This same idea can work with an older child or adult learning a new language, but only with people, or objects. Let’s say you are learning French and you have, for the sake of argument, a butterfly on your hand, and someone who speaks French comes up behind you and says “Un papillon” while looking at the butterfly. If you look up at the person as they are speaking and then see them looking at the butterfly on your hand, you can deduce that they are referring to the insect you were observing. This wouldn’t work, however, for an abstract phrase, like “Le papillon atterrit sur la fleur (The butterfly landed on the flower)”, said in general with no point of reference.