Online Processing of the Grammatical Aspect Marker by L2 Chinese Learners

Autor/inn/en	Liang, Lijuan; Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Chen, Baoguo
Titel	Online Processing of the Grammatical Aspect Marker by L2 Chinese Learners
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 38 (2022) 4, S.765-786 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Liang, Lijuan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658321996423
Schlagwörter	Grammar; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Transfer of Training; Native Language; Language Processing; Semantics; Prediction; Syntax; Learning Experience; Language Proficiency; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Indo European Languages; Sentences; Diagnostic Tests; Models; Linguistic Theory; Foreign Countries; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; Majors (Students); Honors Curriculum; Translation; Language Tests; Form Classes (Languages); Vocabulary Skills; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Sprachverarbeitung; Semantik; Vorhersage; Lernerfahrung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Indoeuropäisch; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Analogiemodell; Linguistische Theorie; Ausland; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Language test; Sprachtest; Analytischer Sprachbau; Aktiver Wortschatz; Großbritannien
Abstract	The perfective aspect marker in Chinese is partly functionally similar to inflectional suffixes in Indo-European languages but is non-inflectional and lexical in nature, lying thus at the semantics-syntax interface. This provides us with the opportunity to compare directly the syntactic and semantic constraints during second language (L2) sentence processing. The present study explored how L2 Chinese learners with Indo-European languages as their first languages (L1s) process the Chinese perfective marker. The Competition Model prioritizes syntactic processes entailed by cross-linguistic transfer from the participants' L1s, but this prediction might be challenged by the concurrent functioning of semantic processes. In an event-related potentials (ERP) experiment, 22 European language-speaking L2 Chinese learners with low to intermediate proficiency level and 20 native Chinese speakers (i.e. the control group) participated. An aspectual agreement paradigm was used for materials. Results showed that in the aspect marker mismatch condition, L2 Chinese learners with a shorter learning experience were more likely to show a P600-like component, indicating a morpho-syntactic routine, supporting thus the predictions of cross-linguistic transfer based on the Competition Model. Those with a longer L2 learning experience were more likely to show an N400-like component similar to native Chinese speakers. This shift from P600 to N400 for more advanced learners suggests that L1-L2 syntactic similarity may exert much stronger influence than semantic constraints for learners with shorter L2 experience. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01