Processing collocations in a second language: A case of first language activation?

Brent Wolter · Junko Yamashita

98 citations0/0 files storedApplied Psycholinguistics

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Second Language Acquisition and Learning Language Development and Disorders Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study investigated the possible influence of first language (L1) collocational patterns on second language (L2) collocational processing. A lexical decision task was used to assess whether collocational patterns acceptable in the L1 but not the L2 would still be activated when processing language entirely in the L2. The results revealed no such activation. Furthermore, L2 speakers did not produce accelerated processing for control collocations that were acceptable in the L2 but not the L1. Based on these findings, we put forth some theoretical suggestions regarding recent research indicating accelerated processing for congruent over incongruent collocations. Finally, our NS control group revealed some unexpected tendencies that cannot be easily accounted for with our current understanding of L1 language processing.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 98 citations exist upstream.

References

1964ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF SYNTAX 2001Learning Vocabulary in Another Language 2006Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language 1992Corpus, Concordance, Collocation 2008Analyzing Linguistic Data 1971Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words: Evidence of a dependence between retrieval operations.2002Formulaic Language and the Lexicon 1994Corpus, Concordance, Collocation

Cited by

2020Collocational Processing in L1 and L2: The Effects of Word Frequency, Collocational Frequency, and Association 2021Ontogenesis Model of the L2 Lexical Representation 2020Timed versus untimed recognition of L2 collocations: Does estimated proficiency modulate congruency effects?2020The processing of multiword expressions in children and adults: An eye-tracking study of Chinese 2018Eye movements in vocabulary research

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.