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Effects of L1-L2 congruency, collocation type, and restriction on processing L2 collocations
1School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
|August 15, 2022
Summary
Advanced Chinese learners of English process collocations differently than native speakers, showing sensitivity to L1-L2 congruency but not collocation restriction.
Area of Science:
- Second Language Acquisition
- Psycholinguistics
- Lexical Semantics
Background:
- Understanding how second language (L2) learners process collocations is crucial for effective language pedagogy.
- Previous research has explored various factors influencing L2 collocation processing, including learner proficiency and L1 transfer.
- The interplay between L1-L2 congruency and collocation restriction in L2 processing remains an area requiring further investigation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the effects of L1-L2 congruency and collocation restriction on L2 collocational processing in advanced Chinese learners of English.
- To compare the processing of congruent and English-only collocations by both L2 learners and native English speakers.
- To examine the influence of collocation type (verb-noun, adjective-noun) and restriction (free vs. restricted) on processing.
Main Methods:
- An online acceptability judgment task was employed with advanced Chinese learners of English and native English-speaking controls.
- Participants evaluated the acceptability of congruent and English-only collocations with identical node words but varying collocates.
- Collocations included verb-noun (VN) and adjective-noun (AN) types, categorized as free or restricted, sourced from the British National Corpus (BNC).
Main Results:
- Non-native speakers demonstrated sensitivity to L1-L2 congruency, processing congruent collocations differently than English-only ones.
- Native speakers, however, were not sensitive to L1-L2 congruency.
- Native speakers showed sensitivity to collocation restriction, while non-native speakers did not exhibit this sensitivity.
Conclusions:
- The findings suggest that advanced Chinese learners of English rely on L1-L2 congruency during L2 collocation processing.
- Native speakers' sensitivity to restriction indicates a reliance on lexical fixedness in their processing.
- These results provide support for the mapping hypothesis and the open choice principle in the context of L2 collocational processing for Chinese English learners.
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