Lexicon over Syntax
L2 Structural Processing of Chinese Separable Verbs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900748 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Junghwan Maeng (0000-0001-5422-9765, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages8030192 |
| OpenAlex | W4385812613 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 45 |
This study used online and offline tasks to examine whether proficient Korean learners of Chinese can analyze the syntactic structure of separable verbs in a native-like manner during real-time processing. Separable verbs are considered a unique grammar in Chinese, involving an interface of lexicon and syntax. Despite their lexical status, separable verbs occur in the form of syntactic phrases, with constituents modified by phrase-level rules in syntax. The present study demonstrates that despite native-like offline judgments on the syntactic analysis of separable verbs, the same grammatical information was not utilized in the L2 real-time processing. The results of the experiments indicate that the structural information of separable verbs was employed less in the L2 online processing due to overreliance on the lexical representations of these compounds. In contrast, it was shown that L1 speakers could access both syntactic and lexical information associated with separable verbs during real-time processing. It is suggested that when processing a construction involving an interface of syntax and lexicon, L2 speakers rely heavily on lexicon storage and underutilize structural information
Generative grammar · Interface (matter · Lexical functional grammar · Lexicon · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Phrase · Sentence · Sentence processing · Separable space · Syntax · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |