Insight into the Structure of Compound Words among Speakers of Chinese and English

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Jie; Anderson, Richard C.; Wang, Qiuying; Packard, Jerome; Wu, Xinchun; Tang, Shan; Ke, Xiaoling
Titel	Insight into the Structure of Compound Words among Speakers of Chinese and English
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 33 (2012) 4, S.753-779 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716411000555
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Grade 6; Verbs; Nouns; Chinese; Grade 2; Grade 4; College Students; Psycholinguistics; Language Processing; Second Language Learning; Comparative Analysis; China; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; China; Chinesen; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Collegestudent; Psycholinguistik; Sprachverarbeitung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; USA
Abstract	Knowledge of compound word structures in Chinese and English was investigated, comparing 435 Chinese and 258 Americans, including second, fourth, and sixth graders, and college undergraduates. As anticipated, the results revealed that Chinese speakers performed better on a word structure analogy task than their English-speaking counterparts. Also, as anticipated, speakers of both languages performed better on noun + noun and verb + particle compounds, which are more productive in their respective languages than noun + verb and verb + noun compounds, which are less productive. Both Chinese and English speakers performed significantly better on novel compounds than on familiar compounds, most likely because familiar compounds are lexicalized and do not invite decomposition into constituents. (As Provided).
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