L2 processing of morphologically complex words in Chinese

• 영문명: L2 processing of morphologically complex words in Chinese
• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: 맹정환 김선아
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제40권 Special Edition, 1~31쪽, 전체 31쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.09.30

영문 초록

This study investigated the L2morphological processing by examining whether L2 Chinese speakers are able to constructhierarchically structured representations of morphologically complex words as efficiently asL1 Chinese speakers. Additionally, the current study explored whether the prominence ofChinese morphemes influences L2 speakers’ engagement in native-like structural processingof complex words. To tap into the morphological decomposition in the early stage of lexicalprocessing, a masked-priming lexical decision task was employed. The findings of this studyalign with the Shallow Structure Hypothesis, which proposes that non-structural informationtakes priority over structural information in L2 processing. L2 speakers exhibited similarpriming patterns to L1 speakers for morphologically related prime-target pairs, but the L2participants also showed semantic and orthographic priming effects which were not foundin the L1 group. This indicates that L2 speakers heavily rely on semantic and orthographiccues, leading to enhanced priming effects for morphologically related prime-target pairs thatshare the initial two characters. These findings suggest that L2 processing of morphologicallycomplex words may prioritize non-structural information by relying more on lexical-semanticconnections and surface-level orthographic information rather than deep hierarchical structureprocessing.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Experiment

4. Results

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

L2 processing Chinese morphology complex words Shallow Structure Hypothesis