Title: A Comparative Study of Concreteness Effect in the Word Associations of English and Chinese Mental Lexicon
Abstract: This study investigated effect on both L1 and L2 mental lexicon organizations by comparing their word association responses respectively.The definition of concreteness of different classes of words was first proposed from two perspectives of the conception of space and the experience of senses by Langacker(2004).The results indicate that effect does not change nature of semantically-related L1 mental lexicon,however;it does show some impact on L2 mental lexicon,in which concrete words elicit far more semantically-related responses whereas Abstract counterparts elicit far fewer syntagmatically-related ones.The rapidly expanded paradigmatic knowledge and fairly stabilized syntagmatic knowledge of concrete and Abstract words in L2 mental lexicon provide strong evidence for conclusion of asymmetrical and asynchronous development of L2 semantic,syntagmatic-paradigmatic knowledge due to effect.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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