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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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Autores principales: Fang, Shaohua, Xu, Yi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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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.
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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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