Cross-linguistic collocational networks in the L1 Turkish–L2 English mental lexicon

Cangır, Hakan; Durrant, Philip

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103057

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“…It is hypothesized that the target adjectives are likely to prime the most conventional and familiar nouns (i.e., with stronger associations) in the L1 lexicon. Priming studies seem to support that assumption of psycholinguistic reality of collocations both in Turkish (Cangır et al, 2017;Öksüz et al, 2020;Cangır and Durrant, 2021) and other languages (Durrant and Doherty, 2010). The psycholinguistic reality of collocations, which is also partly evidenced through the humble findings of this research study, has the potential to guide the applications within the context of language teaching.…”

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Lexical Associations in the L1 Turkish Mental Lexicon: Can L1 Lexical Intuition and a Representative Corpus Guide Teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language Materials?

Cangır¹

2021

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Studies to date using corpus linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches have investigated the collocational links in both the L1 and L2 brain from different angles. They have attempted to test the role collocations play in the mental lexicon and question how corpus data can guide us in our investigations. However, there have been almost no attempts to explore the relationship between the L1 Turkish users' subjective judgements of collocational use (frequency) and the association strength of collocational items in Turkish evidenced in representative corpora. This research, mainly with a corpuslinguistic approach, aims to (a) detect the possible relationship between the collocational links in the L1 Turkish mental lexicon and the collocational frequency profiles on the TNC (Turkish National Corpus) (b) and thus question if L1 speaker intuitions (familiarity) regarding collocational frequency and the frequency profiles of the items, as evidenced through representative corpora, can/should be exploited in an attempt to create target vocabulary lists or vocabulary teaching materials for teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The results indicate that the collocational links in L1 Turkish users' mental lexicon seem to resemble the lexical associations represented in the TNC. To be more precise, higher Delta-P (1 > word 2) scores are associated with stronger collocational intuitions. Additionally, the Delta-P (1 > word 2) as well as the CEFR 1 level are significant predictors of subjective judgements for frequent collocational use. The results have been discussed in light of the psycholinguistic research highlighting collocational processing, and some pedagogical conclusions have been drawn.

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confidence: 69%

Lexical Associations in the L1 Turkish Mental Lexicon: Can L1 Lexical Intuition and a Representative Corpus Guide Teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language Materials?

Cangır¹

2021

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“…We may also observe some research findings exploiting the cross-linguistic collocational priming paradigm, which partly supports the claims here. For instance, Cangır and Durrant (2021c) found evidence for cross-linguistic collocational priming for congruent adj+noun collocations in Turkish and English, particularly in L1-L2 direction. The connectionist account of language processing can help us explain this crosslinguistic spreading activation since lexical nodes in different languages are connected to a certain extent, which could result in retrieving word combinations as chunks and help users intuitively label them as more frequent.…”

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Collocational Links in the Multilingual Mind: Frequency Intuitions and Association Strength Measures

Cangır

KUZU

2022

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Collocations are ubiquitous in everyday language, which help language users sound more natural and ease the processing burden during language production. They are also commonly taught in foreign language classrooms and those learners who can master these prevalent word combinations and chunks get to use the language more fluently as they enjoy a processing advantage. There are different approaches to the definition of these frequently co-occurring word combinations, but the current study embraces the frequentist approach which adopts a corpus linguistic technique and tries to combine corpus linguistics and user intuition data in its interpretations. Collocations have been extensively investigated from many different angles using both corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics techniques so far. Having its spark in the theory of collocational priming, the present study attempts to (a) investigate the relationship between corpus-driven association measures and the collocational frequency judgements of L1 Turkish-L2 English-L3 Italian users, (b) analyse the possible effect of congruence across the languages on the frequency relationship, (c) question if there is a difference between L1 Italian users’ and L3 Italian users’ sensitivity towards collocational strength based on their collocational frequency intuitions in Italian and (d) find humble evidence for the psycholinguistic reality of collocations in the L3 Italian mental lexicon, if any. The results indicate that language users’ frequency judgements in L2 English and L3 Italian correlate with an association measure (t-score) and the frequency of congruent items are judged more accurately. Additionally, L3 Italian users’ frequency intuitions overlap with native Italian users to a certain extent. The findings are discussed in the light of the earlier research on usage-based language use and frequency intuition.

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“…Cangir and Durrant discovered proof of cross-linguistic collocational priming in L1 Turkish EFL learners, especially for ADJ + N collocations [20]. Additionally, they also claimed that certain word combinations were digested more quickly when they were presented in the direction of L1 to L2, as well as when they were congruent across the two languages under study [20]. However, the processing of V + N collocations was inhibited between two languages [20].…”

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“…According to Channell, it is very possible that vocabulary in a speaker's L1 and L2 mental lexicon have robust connections to one another [19]. Cangir and Durrant discovered proof of cross-linguistic collocational priming in L1 Turkish EFL learners, especially for ADJ + N collocations [20]. Additionally, they also claimed that certain word combinations were digested more quickly when they were presented in the direction of L1 to L2, as well as when they were congruent across the two languages under study [20].…”

Section: Mother Tonguementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, they also claimed that certain word combinations were digested more quickly when they were presented in the direction of L1 to L2, as well as when they were congruent across the two languages under study [20]. However, the processing of V + N collocations was inhibited between two languages [20]. This also proved the influence of L1 to the mental lexicon of L2, because the grammatical order of verb phrase in the two languages is different, V + N in English while N + V in Turkish.…”

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Review of Research on EFL Learners Mental Lexicon

Jiang

2023

LNEP

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Research on the second language (L2) mental lexicon has become popular since this century, under the influence of literature on the first language (L1) mental lexicon. Among various L2, English is one of the most commonly learned second languages by non-native speakers all over the world. This paper reviews literature about major findings of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners mental lexicon through the results of word association tests, analyzed from three perspectives: syntagmatic responses, paradigmatic responses and form responses. Also, this paper summarizes some influencing factors of the results from empirical studies. By reading previous research on EFL learners mental lexicon, this paper tries to find out some pedagogical implications to help improve the efficiency of L2 vocabulary teaching. The findings of empirical studies show that EFL learners mental lexicon is quite different from native speakers. Although both groups mental lexicon is mainly associated with semantic responses, the specific links are distinct from each other. EFL learners are more likely to give form-related responses, but whether the proportion of syntagmatic or paradigmatic responses is higher varies in different experiments.

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Cross-linguistic collocational networks in the L1 Turkish–L2 English mental lexicon

Cited by 7 publications

References 36 publications

Lexical Associations in the L1 Turkish Mental Lexicon: Can L1 Lexical Intuition and a Representative Corpus Guide Teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language Materials?

Lexical Associations in the L1 Turkish Mental Lexicon: Can L1 Lexical Intuition and a Representative Corpus Guide Teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language Materials?

Collocational Links in the Multilingual Mind: Frequency Intuitions and Association Strength Measures

Review of Research on EFL Learners Mental Lexicon

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