A reassessment of the effects of neighborhood density and phonotactic probability on L2 English word learning

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Tsung-Ying Chen
  • Yi-Sin Sie

• Two groups of participants were formed according to their level of English: high and low proficiency. No differences were found between groups. Although visual preference for three competitors was different in four time windows, supporting the existence of lexical processing in cascade, a significant preference for the semantic competitor was found, in contrast to the route found in native speakers [4]. These results support the notion of lexical processing in cascade, revealing a different retrieval of lexical information when auditory and visual input is presented in a second language.

• Date created

  2019-03-25

• Subjects / Keywords

  • neighborhood density
  • word learning
  • Mandarin
  • token frequency
  • L2
  • English
  • phonotactic probability

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-sb0h-jj73

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International