Morphological Family Size Effects in Young First and Second Language Learners: Evidence of Cross-Language Semantic Activation in Visual Word Recognition

Autor/inn/en	de Zeeuw, Marlies; Verhoeven, Ludo; Schreuder, Robert
Titel	Morphological Family Size Effects in Young First and Second Language Learners: Evidence of Cross-Language Semantic Activation in Visual Word Recognition
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 62 (2012) 1, S.68-92 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9922.2011.00691.x
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Semantics; Second Language Learning; Word Recognition; Grade 6; Grade 4; Grade 2; Indo European Languages; Semiotics; Bilingualism; Turkish; Morphology (Languages); Task Analysis; Decision Making; Vocabulary; Visual Stimuli; Transfer of Training + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Semantik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Worterkennung; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; Indoeuropäisch; Semiotik; Bilingualismus; Türkisch; Morphology; Morphologie; Aufgabenanalyse; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Wortschatz; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung
Abstract	This study examined to what extent young second language (L2) learners showed morphological family size effects in L2 word recognition and whether the effects were grade-level related. Turkish-Dutch bilingual children (L2) and Dutch (first language, L1) children from second, fourth, and sixth grade performed a Dutch lexical decision task on words with varying family sizes. The responses of both L1 and L2 children were more accurate (in second grade) and faster (in fourth and sixth grades) for words with a large family than for words with a small family, even though the L2 children had a smaller vocabulary size in Dutch than the L1 children. These findings show how the spreading of semantic activation across languages can influence word recognition in L2 learners. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10