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A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity
Recently, considerable attention has been given to the effect of the age of acquisition (AoA) on learning a second language (L2); however, the scarcity of L2 AoA ratings has limited advancements in this field. We presented the ratings of L2 AoA in late, unbalanced Chinese-English bilingual speakers...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7530938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33071876 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.554785 |
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description | Recently, considerable attention has been given to the effect of the age of acquisition (AoA) on learning a second language (L2); however, the scarcity of L2 AoA ratings has limited advancements in this field. We presented the ratings of L2 AoA in late, unbalanced Chinese-English bilingual speakers and collected the familiarity of the L2 and the corresponding Chinese translations of English words. In addition, to promote the cross-language comparison and motivate the AoA research on Chinese two-character words, data on AoA, familiarity, and concreteness of the first language (L1) were also collected from Chinese native speakers. We first reported the reliability of each rated variable. Then, we described the validity by the following three steps: the distributions of each rated variable were described, the correlations between these variables were calculated, and regression analyses were run. The results showed that AoA, familiarity, and concreteness were all significant predictors of lexical decision times. The word database can be used by researchers who are interested in AoA, familiarity, and concreteness in both the L1 and L2 of late, unbalanced Chinese-English bilingual speakers. The full database is freely available for research purposes. |
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spelling | pubmed-75309382020-10-17 A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity Wang, Jue Chen, Baoguo Front Psychol Psychology Recently, considerable attention has been given to the effect of the age of acquisition (AoA) on learning a second language (L2); however, the scarcity of L2 AoA ratings has limited advancements in this field. We presented the ratings of L2 AoA in late, unbalanced Chinese-English bilingual speakers and collected the familiarity of the L2 and the corresponding Chinese translations of English words. In addition, to promote the cross-language comparison and motivate the AoA research on Chinese two-character words, data on AoA, familiarity, and concreteness of the first language (L1) were also collected from Chinese native speakers. We first reported the reliability of each rated variable. Then, we described the validity by the following three steps: the distributions of each rated variable were described, the correlations between these variables were calculated, and regression analyses were run. The results showed that AoA, familiarity, and concreteness were all significant predictors of lexical decision times. The word database can be used by researchers who are interested in AoA, familiarity, and concreteness in both the L1 and L2 of late, unbalanced Chinese-English bilingual speakers. The full database is freely available for research purposes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7530938/ /pubmed/33071876 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.554785 Text en Copyright © 2020 Wang and Chen. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Wang, Jue Chen, Baoguo A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity |
title | A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity |
title_full | A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity |
title_fullStr | A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity |
title_full_unstemmed | A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity |
title_short | A Database of Chinese-English Bilingual Speakers: Ratings of the Age of Acquisition and Familiarity |
title_sort | database of chinese-english bilingual speakers: ratings of the age of acquisition and familiarity |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7530938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33071876 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.554785 |
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