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Processing and acquisition of temporality in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Effects of grammatical and lexical aspects
This study investigated the second language (L2) processing and acquisition of Chinese temporality, specifically the interaction of grammatical and lexical aspects. An experimental group of 31 English-speaking learners of Chinese and a control group of 29 native speakers of Mandarin Chinese complete...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186331 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964861 |
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description | This study investigated the second language (L2) processing and acquisition of Chinese temporality, specifically the interaction of grammatical and lexical aspects. An experimental group of 31 English-speaking learners of Chinese and a control group of 29 native speakers of Mandarin Chinese completed an online sentence-picture matching task and an offline translation task. Results from these experiments demonstrated the prototype effect: In aspectual development, perfective aspect started with telic verbs and progressive aspect started with activity verbs, in accordance with the Aspect Hypothesis, both for online processing and offline comprehension. The prototype effect of the grammatical aspect was evident for activity verbs but less so for accomplishment verbs in the L2 group across tasks, and this was explained through language-specific properties and L2 learners’ instructional input. In addition, L2 proficiency and working memory capacity were found to modulate these processes. |
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spelling | pubmed-95216282022-09-30 Processing and acquisition of temporality in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Effects of grammatical and lexical aspects Fang, Shaohua Xu, Yi Front Psychol Psychology This study investigated the second language (L2) processing and acquisition of Chinese temporality, specifically the interaction of grammatical and lexical aspects. An experimental group of 31 English-speaking learners of Chinese and a control group of 29 native speakers of Mandarin Chinese completed an online sentence-picture matching task and an offline translation task. Results from these experiments demonstrated the prototype effect: In aspectual development, perfective aspect started with telic verbs and progressive aspect started with activity verbs, in accordance with the Aspect Hypothesis, both for online processing and offline comprehension. The prototype effect of the grammatical aspect was evident for activity verbs but less so for accomplishment verbs in the L2 group across tasks, and this was explained through language-specific properties and L2 learners’ instructional input. In addition, L2 proficiency and working memory capacity were found to modulate these processes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9521628/ /pubmed/36186331 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964861 Text en Copyright © 2022 Fang and Xu. https://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 Fang, Shaohua Xu, Yi Processing and acquisition of temporality in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Effects of grammatical and lexical aspects |
title | Processing and acquisition of temporality in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Effects of grammatical and lexical aspects |
title_full | Processing and acquisition of temporality in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Effects of grammatical and lexical aspects |
title_fullStr | Processing and acquisition of temporality in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Effects of grammatical and lexical aspects |
title_full_unstemmed | Processing and acquisition of temporality in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Effects of grammatical and lexical aspects |
title_short | Processing and acquisition of temporality in L2 Mandarin Chinese: Effects of grammatical and lexical aspects |
title_sort | processing and acquisition of temporality in l2 mandarin chinese: effects of grammatical and lexical aspects |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9521628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186331 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964861 |
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