Lexical inferencing and the mutual intelligibility of Estonian and Finnish

Bibliographic Data

ID20377726
AuthorsPirkko Muikku-Werner (University of Eastern Finland, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume40
Issue2
Pages201-223
Publication date2017-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNordic Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0332-5865 • E-ISSN: 1502-4717
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0332586517000105
OpenAlexW2761536876
LanguageEN
References cited26

Several factors affect the comprehension of a text written in a language related to the reader's first language (L1): (i) orthographic similarity with the reader's L1, (ii) contextual clues, (iii) semantic relationships between components of phraseological units, and (iv) L1 reading comprehension strategies. This article compares the results of a cloze test (CT), in which a group of Finns read a text in their L1 (Finnish) and filled the gaps, and a translation test (TT), in which another group of Finns translated the Estonian version of the same text into Finnish. This text included five pairs of primes and targets, parts of the same phraseological unit, representing different semantic relations; in the CT the target was replaced by a gap and in the TT the respondents had to translate the target. The results indicated that the respondents used similar inferencing strategies in both tests, and thus provide evidence for the assumption that orthographic similarity is not the sole factor contributing to understanding a foreign text, but that L1 reading comprehension strategies are also employed

Comprehension · Estonian · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Reading comprehension · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Artificial Intelligence

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