Collocational processing in light of the phraseological continuum model : Does semantic transparency matter?
Författare
Summary, in English
The present study investigates whether two types of word combinations (free combinations and collocations) differ in terms of processing by testing Howarth's Continuum Model based on word combination typologies from a phraseological tradition. A visual semantic judgment task was administered to advanced Swedish learners of English (n = 27) and native English-speaking controls (n = 38). Reaction times and error rates were recorded for free combinations, collocations, and baseline items. There was a processing cost for collocations compared to free combinations, for both groups of participants. This cost likely stems from the semantically semi-transparent nature of collocations as they are defined in the phraseological tradition. Furthermore, phrasal frequency based on corpus values also predicted reaction times. These results lend initial support to the Continuum Model from a processing perspective and suggest that degree of semantic transparency together with phrasal frequency plays an important role in collocational processing.
Avdelning/ar
- Engelska
- Language, Cognition and Discourse@Lund (LCD@L)
- Language Acquisition
Publiceringsår
2016-04-29
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
296-323
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Language Learning
Volym
66
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- Languages and Literature
Nyckelord
- collocation
- free combination
- phraseology
- advanced learners
- second language
Status
Published
Projekt
- Phraseological Processing and Representation in a Second Language
Forskningsgrupp
- Language, Cognition and Discourse@Lund (LCD@L)
- Language Acquisition
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1467-9922