Evidence for the Adoption of the Flemma as an Appropriate Word Counting Unit
Evidence for the Adoption of the Flemma as an Appropriate Word Counting Unit
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采用 Flemma 作为适当字数统计单位的证据
DOI：
10.1093/applin/amw050
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发表时间：
2017
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通讯作者：
Stuart McLean
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McLean;S. & Rouault;G.;Stuart McLean
第二语言词汇研究领域的一个重要空白涉及亚洲英语学习者理解屈折词和派生词家族成员的能力。日本EFL学习者（N= 279）被分为三个词汇水平组，他们的理解能力的曲折和派生的英语形式的英日翻译测试测量。在三个熟练组中，参与者理解12种基本形式、相关屈折形式和相关派生形式的能力存在显著差异，甚至在那些掌握了前4,000或5,000种基本形式的参与者中也是如此。一个词的基本形式和相关的屈折形式，被认为是一个合适的单词计数单位，为大多数参与者。结果很重要，因为语料库研究结果表明，在词族提供98%的文本覆盖率的情况下，flemma仅提供85%的相同文本覆盖率。因此，考虑到阅读理解的不利影响，只有小的下降，在一个文本中的已知令牌的百分比，结果的问题，在字的家庭为基础的研究所作的推论。
An important gap in the field of second language vocabulary research concerns the ability of Asian learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to comprehend inflectional and derivational word family members. Japanese EFL learners (N= 279) were divided into three lexical proficiency groups, and their ability to comprehend inflectional and derivational English forms was measured with an English to Japanese translation test. A significant difference among the participants' ability to comprehend 12 base forms, associated inflected forms, and associated derived forms was found across the three proficiency groups, and even among participants who demonstrated mastery of the first 4,000 or 5,000 base forms of English. The flemma, a word's base form and associated inflectional forms, was found to be an appropriate word counting unit for most participants. Results are important because corpus research findings demonstrate that in cases where the word family provides 98 per cent coverage of texts, the flemma only provides 85 per cent coverage of the same texts. Thus, considering the detrimental impact to reading comprehension from only small decreases in the percentage of known tokens within a text, the results question the inferences made in word family-based research.