Morphological Family Size Effects in Young First and Second Language Learners
Evidence of Cross-Language Semantic Activation in Visual Word Recognition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501681 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marlies De Zeeuw (Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author), Ludo Verhoeven (0000-0002-5108-4705, Radboud University Nijmegen), Robert Schreuder (Radboud University Nijmegen) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 68-92 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2011.00691.x |
| OpenAlex | W2136987290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
This study examined to what extent young second language (L2) learners showed morphological family size effects in L2 word recognition and whether the effects were grade-level related. Turkish-Dutch bilingual children (L2) and Dutch (first language, L1) children from second, fourth, and sixth grade performed a Dutch lexical decision task on words with varying family sizes. The responses of both L1 and L2 children were more accurate (in second grade) and faster (in fourth and sixth grades) for words with a large family than for words with a small family, even though the L2 children had a smaller vocabulary size in Dutch than the L1 children. These findings show how the spreading of semantic activation across languages can influence word recognition in L2 learners
Cognition · First language · Indo-European languages · Lexical decision task · Linguistics · Reading (process) · Task (project management) · Turkish · Vocabulary · Vocabulary development · Word (group theory) · Word recognition · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |