Effects of L1-L2 congruency, collocation type, and restriction on processing L2 collocations.

ABSTRACT: The present study investigated the effects of L1-L2 congruency, collocation type, and restriction on L2 collocational processing. Advanced Chinese learners of English and native English-speaking controls performed an online acceptability judgment task to investigate how advanced L2 learners processed congruent (sharing the same meaning and structure in L1 language) collocations and English-only (not equivalent in L1 construction) collocations with the same node (right) word and a different collocate (left). The experimental materials included verb-noun (VN), adjective-noun (AN) collocations, free (less fixed), and restricted (more fixed) collocations chosen from BNC. The results revealed that (i) The non-native speakers were sensitive to L1-L2 congruency, but the native speakers were not.

SUBMITTER: Jiang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9366664 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature