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2017-12-10 13:10
The effects of sentence construction familiarity on L2 sentence comprehension by Japanese learners of English
-- An analysis on relative sentence construction familiarity -- Ken-ichi Hashimoto (Osaka Kyoiku Univ.), Tomoyuki Narumi (Hyogo Univ. of Education), Satoshi Yabuuchi (Kyoto Seika Univ.), Hisaki Satoi (Ryukoku Univ.), Mayu Hamada, Ayako Hirano, Kaori Hyodo (Kobe Univ.), Michiko Bando (Shiga Univ.), Yasunari Harada (Waseda Univ.), Hirokazu Yokokawa (Kobe Univ.) TL2017-51 |
Abstract |
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The present study examined how well L2 learners can utilize sentence construction familiarity (SCF) information in L2 sentence comprehension. Forty-eight Japanese learners of L2 English with low-intermediate proficiency completed a dialogue-style stop-making-sense task in which they read a filler-gap sentence containing a transitive, dative, or object-control verb with varying degrees of SCF word-by-word and pressed a designated key upon detecting a semantic anomaly. Main findings are an earlier activation of the transitive argument structure when reading sentences with a higher transitive SCF, and inefficient utilization of dative and object-control argument structures. The dative results also suggest that it is important to take "relative" SCF into account when considering the SCF effect on L2 processing performance with verbs containing multiple sentence constructions. |
Keyword |
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(in English) |
sentence construction familiarity / L2 sentence comprehension / simple transitive verb / object-control verb / dative verb / / / |
Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 117, no. 341, TL2017-51, pp. 43-48, Dec. 2017. |
Paper # |
TL2017-51 |
Date of Issue |
2017-12-03 (TL) |
ISSN |
Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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