How to Make L2Easier to Process?The Role of L2 Proficiency and Semantic Category in Translation Prim

• 作 者: XIN WANG
• 机 构: University of Oxford,
• 出 处: 当代外语研究
• 发表日期: 2014年12期
• 关键词: proficiency lexical semantic Forster bilingual dominance unrelated implication c

The current study reports four masked translation priming experiments and demonstrates that L2 proficiency plays a role in translation priming but it is not the only factor determining translation priming patterns.Instead,language dominance might be more accurate in p redictin g p rimin g p atterns.Given the asy mmetrical rep resentations of L1 and L2as described by most bilingual models,the conditions to p roduce L2-L1 priming not only depends on the task,but also the category size in semantic categ orization.Relevant results will be discussed in relation to biling ual models.One implication of the current results is that processing L2 in a specific semantic context can be optimal to L2 lexical access.

The current study reports four masked translation priming experiments and demonstrates that L2 proficiency plays a role in translation priming but it is not the only factor determining translation priming patterns. Instead, language dominance might be more accurate in p redictin gp rimin gp atterns. Given the asy mmetrical rep resentations of L1 and L2 as described by most bilingual models, the conditions to p roduce L2-L1 priming not only depends on the task, but also the category size in semantic categorizations. Relevant results will be discussed in relation to biling ual models.One implication of the current results is that processing L2 in a specific semantic context can be optimal to L2 lexical access.