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Jong-Seung Park, Tohru Seraku, Jieun Kiaer
Collocations in Japanese and Korean have been studied extensively based on statistical tools. The criteria for collocations in these languages, however, have not been fully established in the literature, and it is not obvious whether all statistically significant combinations of words could be regarded as collocations.…
Xiangtao Du, Muhammad Afzaal, Hind Al Fadda
The investigation of learners’ interlanguage could greatly contribute to the teaching of English as a foreign language and the development of teaching materials. The present study investigates the collocational profiles of large-scale written production by English learners with varied L1 backgrounds and different…
Eric Wehrli
Proper identification of collocations (and more generally of multiword expressions (MWEs), is an important qualitative step for several NLP applications and particularly so for translation. Since many MWEs cannot be translated literally, failure to identify them yields at best inaccurate translation. This paper is…
Abdulaziz Altamimi
Although extensive research has been carried out on collocation processing, it is still unclear how cross-language overlap and transparency influence the processing of collocations by L2 learners. In the current study, a phrase judgment task was used to investigate the processing of congruent (i.e., exist in both…
Mengchu Yu, Saisai Xu, Lianrui Yang, Shifa Chen + 1 more
Collocations typically refer to habitual word combinations, which not only occur in texts but also constitute an essential component of the mental lexicon. This study focuses on the mental lexicon of Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), investigating the representation of collocations and the…
Qichao Song, Xiaodong Fei, Norio Matsumi
Introduction Research on collocations has become an essential issue in L2 acquisition and cognitive psychology. Previous studies have mainly focused on phonographic languages such as English, Swedish, and German, and primarily discussed the effect of semantic transparency and translational congruency. However, these…
Ying Jiang
The present study investigated the effects of L1-L2 congruency, collocation type, and restriction on L2 collocational processing. Advanced Chinese learners of English and native English-speaking controls performed an online acceptability judgment task to investigate how advanced L2 learners processed congruent (sharing…
Jie Lou
The present study took L2 English learners of different levels in China as subjects to investigate the relationship between collocational familiarity and collocational frequency as well as L1-L2 congruency, and then explored the development of the above relationship as L2 proficiency develops. The results showed that…
Xiaofang Zhang, Barry Lee Reynolds, Marco Calabria
This study investigated the effectiveness, as well as EFL learners’ perceptions, of the keyword method (KWM) in comparison to the rote learning method (RLM) for the learning of English collocations. A controlled laboratory-like setting was adopted for randomly assigning participants to the KWM group (n = 15) or the RLM…
Hui Li, Kevin B. Paterson, Kayleigh L. Warrington, Xiaolu Wang
We report an eye movement experiment that investigates the effects of collocation strength and contextual predictability on the reading of collocative phrases by L2 English readers. Thirty-eight Chinese English as foreign language learners (EFL) read 40 sentences, each including a specific two-word phrase that was…
Hui Li, Xiaolu Wang, Kevin B. Paterson, Hua Zhang + 1 more
A growing number of studies show a processing advantage for collocations, which are commonly-used juxtapositions of words, such as “joint effort” or “shake hands,” suggesting that skilled readers are keenly perceptive to the occurrence of two words in phrases. With the current research, we report two experiments that…
Zhao Akiko Zhao, Yasuhiro Shirai
This study investigates the development of L2 lexical semantics in advanced Chinese learners of Japanese, focusing on the role of length of residence (LOR). Differences in semantic domains between learners’ first language (L1) and second language (L2) often hinder accurate word meaning acquisition. Cross-linguistic…