The word frequency effect in first- and second-language word recognition: A lexical entrenchment account
The word frequency effect in first- and second-language word recognition: A lexical entrenchment account
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DOI：
10.1080/17470218.2012.720994
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
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1.7
通讯作者：
Brysbaert, Marc
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作者：
Diependaele, Kevin;Lemhofer, Kristin;Brysbaert, Marc
我们研究了母语使用者和第二语言使用者之间词频效应差异的根源。在对英语单词识别时间的大规模分析中，我们发现群体水平的差异完全由个人语言能力得分来解释。此外，对于单语者和三种不同的双语人群（荷兰语英语、法语英语和德语英语），词频和熟练程度之间存在完全相同的定量关系。我们的结论是，第二语言处理比母语处理更大的频率效应可以通过语言内特征来解释，因此不一定是双语的结果（即质的差异）。更具体地说，我们认为，无论双语、语言优势和语言相似性如何，语言熟练程度都会增加词汇巩固，从而导致频率效应降低。
We investigate the origin of differences in the word frequency effect between native speakers and second-language speakers. In a large-scale analysis of English word identification times we find that group-level differences are fully accounted for by the individual language proficiency scores. Furthermore, exactly the same quantitative relation between word frequency and proficiency is found for monolinguals and three different bilingual populations (DutchEnglish, FrenchEnglish, and GermanEnglish). We conclude that the larger frequency effects for second-language processing than for native-language processing can be explained by within-language characteristics and thus need not be the consequence of being bilingual (i.e., a qualitative difference). More specifically, we argue that language proficiency increases lexical entrenchment, which leads to a reduced frequency effect, irrespective of bilingualism, language dominance, and language similarity.