Better to Be Alone than in Bad Company: Cognate Synonyms Impair Word Learning

Antón, Eneko; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni

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“…Results suggest that, when processing one language, bilinguals unintentionally activate both the conceptual and lexical representations of another ( Hermans et al, 1998 ; De Groot et al, 2000 ; Van Hell and Dijkstra, 2002 ; Singh et al, 2014 ; Dijkstra and Walter, 2018 ). The effects of orthographic, phonological, and semantic similarities have been widely documented in both first language (native language, L1) and L2 contexts ( Antón and Duñabeitia, 2020 ). Nonetheless, whether these effects also exist when processing L2s and L3s simultaneously is unclear.…”

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Factors in cognitive processing of Japanese loanwords by advanced Chinese Japanese-as-a-foreign-language learners

Geng,

Song,

Fei

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionPrevious studies have highlighted the challenges faced by Chinese Japanese-as-a-foreign-language (JFL) learners (whose L2 is English) in acquiring L3 Japanese loanwords. These challenges arise from the linguistic characteristics of loanwords and the limited emphasis on teaching and learning them. However, there is a lack of research on the specific factors that influence the processing of Japanese loanwords among Chinese JFL learners. Significant motivation exists, therefore, to investigate these influencing factors as they provide valuable insight into the integration of phonographic and ideographic language systems, ultimately facilitating future lexical acquisition.MethodsIn this study, an experiment was conducted on 31 Chinese JFL learners to investigate the effects of loanword familiarity, English vocabulary proficiency, English-Japanese phonological similarity, and context on the processing of Japanese loanwords.ResultsData analysis, using a (generalized) linear mixed-effect model, provided the following insights: (1) the processing of Japanese loanwords is influenced by English-Japanese phonological similarity, loanword familiarity, context, and learner English proficiency. Among these four factors, familiarity has the most significant impact on Japanese loanword processing; (2) the effects of context and phonological similarity on the processing of Japanese loanwords are not consistently positive. As learners improve their proficiency in L3 Japanese, they tend to decrease their reliance on English knowledge and instead access loanword representations directly to conceptual representations.DiscussionBased on the findings of this study, a processing model for Japanese loanwords among advanced Chinese JFL learners is proposed. The model emphasizes the critical importance of the characteristics of loanwords, including phonological similarity and familiarity. It is necessary to determine the specific circumstances in which context considerably enhances learner processing ability.

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Factors in cognitive processing of Japanese loanwords by advanced Chinese Japanese-as-a-foreign-language learners

Geng,

Song,

Fei

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Cooperative Learning and Comparison of Language and Culture

Ghaith

Awada

2022

Cooperative Learning and World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

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Peculiarities of translation of uncodified vocabulary

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Nowadays, linguists invariably show a great interest in the whole variety of uncodified vocabulary. Researchers view the language as a kind of “mirror” of the processes and transformations taking place in society, since it is in the language that reflects the current state and development of the human community. It is the language and all its lexical composition that most vividly reacts to what is happening in society through transformations and changes in structure and functioning. Non-standard words and expressions are now increasingly serving as means of expressing the positive emotional mood of the author of the statement, and their use in speech contributes to the optimization of communicative interaction in the context of informal interpersonal communication. In modern linguistic literature, as in society as a whole, one can observe an ambiguous attitude towards the problem of active penetration of words and expressions of uncodified vocabulary into various styles of speech, there is no unified approach to assessing the ongoing transformations in determining the place and the function of uncodified vocabulary in the linguistic and communicative space. An attempt is made in the work to identify the features of the functioning and translation of uncodified vocabulary from English into Russian.

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Better to Be Alone than in Bad Company: Cognate Synonyms Impair Word Learning

Cited by 5 publications

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Factors in cognitive processing of Japanese loanwords by advanced Chinese Japanese-as-a-foreign-language learners

Factors in cognitive processing of Japanese loanwords by advanced Chinese Japanese-as-a-foreign-language learners

Cooperative Learning and Comparison of Language and Culture

Peculiarities of translation of uncodified vocabulary

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