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Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events: A synthesis study on L2 acquisition of Chinese motion expressions 运动事件概念化过程中的跨语言影响——汉语运动表达二语习得综合研究

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221132205

Shu-ling Wu, Takako Nunome, J. Wang

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The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language 第二语言中虚幻元音的感知与产生的关系

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221135185

Song Yi Kim, Jeong-Im Han

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SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective 复杂、动态和可预测的SLA：可加工性理论视角

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-04 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221132726

B. Dyson

{"title":"SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective","authors":"B. Dyson","doi":"10.1177/02676583221132726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221132726","url":null,"abstract":"This article enters the debate about the complex and dynamical nature of second language acquisition (SLA) by discussing and commenting on Pallotti’s critique of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). Pallotti’s critique brings to the fore the argument that, due to its anti-reductionist stance, CDST research fails to observe three fundamental research criteria, namely that research should (1) construct models, (2) make generalizations and falsifiable predictions and (3) adopt clear empirical approaches. While Pallotti does not explore research already moving SLA beyond anti-reductionist approaches to complexity and dynamism, the debate can be advanced by examining research doing exactly this. This article aims to evaluate the extent to which Processability Theory (PT) – a theory of second language (L2) processing that advocates reductionism for the sake of theory construction – meets Pallotti’s criteria for researching L2 complexity and dynamics. By discussing Pallotti’s – and PT’s – criticisms of CDST, the article outlines the implied research criteria and delineates how PT meets these criteria by (1) its bidimensional design, (2) its generalizations and falsifiable predictions for development and variation, and (3) its operationalization of constructs. Findings from a longitudinal study of L2 English are presented. These findings elucidate that, by meeting the criteria, PT can reveal the predictable, implicational development of processing complexity in eight learners and the patterned, dynamical interaction between development and variation in the trajectories of two of these learners. The article concludes that PT fulfils Pallotti’s (2022) criteria and, by a reductionist approach which models SLA as multidimensional, it can generate what CDST cannot; dynamical and complex L2 systems which progress in predictable stages, with well-defined constraints on variation, including DST-defined constraints. The article closes by discussing the implications of PT’s approach for future research on L2 complexity and dynamics.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"1279 - 1292"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47915018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect 成人学习者能自动感知二语情感词汇吗?第二语言使用对情绪斯特鲁普效应的影响

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-03 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221131256

S. Ahn, Nan Jiang

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Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels 瓶颈假说的检验：中国英语学习者在不同水平上的形态和句法知识

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221128520

Shiyu Wu, Dilin Liu, Zan Li

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The influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements 语义偏差对阅读过程中三个不相同同源词的影响:来自三语者眼动的证据

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-10-07 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221128525

Agnieszka Lijewska

{"title":"The influence of semantic bias on triple non-identical cognates during reading: Evidence from trilinguals’ eye movements","authors":"Agnieszka Lijewska","doi":"10.1177/02676583221128525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221128525","url":null,"abstract":"The current study investigated how the processing of triple cognates (words sharing form and meaning across three languages) is modulated by the semantic bias of sentence context in a reading task. In the study, Polish–German–English trilinguals read English sentences while their eye movements were monitored. The sentences were either semantically biased (high-context) or neutral (low-context) towards target words. The targets were either Polish–German–English cognates whose cross-language form overlap was incomplete (e.g. DIAMENT–DIAMANT–DIAMOND) or English-only controls (e.g. KURCZAK–HÄHNCHEN–CHICKEN). The results revealed a significant effect of context in gaze durations and in total reading time. Importantly, no cognate facilitation effect was identified in any reading measure. The gaze duration data additionally revealed that English-only controls were read slower in low-context sentences than in high-context sentences but gaze durations for cognates were not affected by the sentence context. Thus, prior bilingual findings were only partially replicated in the current study with trilinguals. This suggests that bilingual models of language processing should be carefully adapted to trilinguals. The current data may also mean that non-identical cognates (even those shared across three languages) induce relatively small effects and large samples of participants and items may be needed to detect such effects across reading measures.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"1235 - 1263"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41851484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Testing the Competing Systems Hypothesis: Further evidence from aspect in tutored L1-English–L2-Spanish 对竞争系统假说的检验：来自L1英语-L2西班牙语辅导方面的进一步证据

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221123954

Tiffany Judy, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, Adel Chaouch-Orozco, Fernando Martín-Villena, David Miller

{"title":"Testing the Competing Systems Hypothesis: Further evidence from aspect in tutored L1-English–L2-Spanish","authors":"Tiffany Judy, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, Adel Chaouch-Orozco, Fernando Martín-Villena, David Miller","doi":"10.1177/02676583221123954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221123954","url":null,"abstract":"This study tests the Competing Systems Hypothesis (CSH) as applied to adult second language acquisition of aspect in Spanish. The CSH purports that differences among tutored and untutored learners result from competition between one system of underlying grammatical knowledge and another of learned metalinguistic knowledge in tutored learners (TLs). Twenty-nine first language (L1) English and second language (L2) Spanish (L1-English–L2-Spanish) TLs and 29 native Spanish speakers completed three tasks examining knowledge of Spanish aspect. A Cloze Task targeted typical use of preterit and imperfect morphology, while a Semantic Entailments Task assessed acquired knowledge of entailments falling out from convergence on the aspectual system. Finally, a Binary-Choice Task targeted three pedagogical simplifications common to L1-English–L2-Spanish textbooks: adverbials that ‘go with’ the preterit or imperfect, ‘meaning-changing’ verbs in preterit, and the lower frequency of stative verbs in preterit. Results align with the CSH in that TLs performed above 80% accuracy on preterit and imperfect items in the Cloze Task, indicating acquisition of Spanish aspectual morphology. The Semantic Entailments Task further shows TLs converge on underlying knowledge of grammatical aspect by making a significant distinction between logical and illogical entailments. Finally, competition between the underlying grammatical system and learned metalinguistic knowledge is evidenced in the Binary-Choice Task where TLs are less accurate with preterit; specifically, TLs demonstrate effects from pedagogical simplifications regarding adverbials and ‘meaning-changing’ verbs.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"1165 - 1189"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42104474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals 高熟练后期双语者不发音爆破语vot的二语习得和一语消耗

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221124011

Amirah Saud Alharbi, Anouschka Foltz, L. Kornder, I. Mennen

{"title":"L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals","authors":"Amirah Saud Alharbi, Anouschka Foltz, L. Kornder, I. Mennen","doi":"10.1177/02676583221124011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221124011","url":null,"abstract":"While much research has examined second language (L2) phonetic acquisition, less research has examined first language (L1) attrition in terms of the voice onset time (VOT) of voiceless stops. The current study examined L2 acquisition and L1 attrition in the VOT of word-initial voiceless stops among late English–Arabic and Arabic–English bilinguals in order to explore the role of phonetic similarity in L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of speech. The study included 60 participants: 15 monolingual Arabic speakers, 15 monolingual English speakers, 15 English–Arabic bilinguals and 15 Arabic–English bilinguals. The bilinguals had been living in their L2 environment for more than 15 years. The participants narrated two cartoons in Arabic and/or three in English. The monolingual groups’ results revealed clear cross-language differences in the VOT of voiceless plosives between the two languages. Phonetic similarity affected L2 acquisition in that those L2 sounds that were close in phonetic space to L1 sounds (i.e. /t/ and /k/) were more difficult to acquire than those that were dissimilar to L1 sounds (i.e. /p/). However, L1 attrition showed an asymmetric pattern, occurring only in the English–Arabic bilinguals’ productions of the English /k/. We suggest that markedness might contribute to explaining this asymmetry.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"1133 - 1163"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43486429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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False geminates as an effective transitional strategy for Cantonese learners of Japanese 假词是粤语学习者学习日语的有效过渡策略

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221128530

Albert Lee, Xiaolin Li, P. Mok

{"title":"False geminates as an effective transitional strategy for Cantonese learners of Japanese","authors":"Albert Lee, Xiaolin Li, P. Mok","doi":"10.1177/02676583221128530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221128530","url":null,"abstract":"This article revisits Lee and Mok (2018) and examines how the Cantonese learners in the study produced second language (L2) Japanese short vs. long consonants which are absent in their first language (L1). Specifically, our goal is to find out whether these learners were substituting real geminates (i.e. long consonants) with the improvised strategy of an unreleased stop coda + homorganic initial consonant sequence (like in the phrase cat tail), which would not have been detectable with the durational ratios in the original study. We analysed the mean intensity of the words sassa, sesse, and sosso, to investigate whether the learners were producing a [t̚]+/s/ cluster, presumably drawn from their L1. The results showed that the beginner group were indeed using this strategy, whereas the advanced learners were largely producing a genuinely geminated /s/ akin to the native speakers. The use of this transitional strategy was also speech-rate dependent, with more cases of /t/-insertion in slower speech for both learner groups. We conclude that (1) although having L1 false geminates does not enable beginners to readily acquire genuine L2 geminates, the latter can be learned after enough exposure, and (2) during this transition, Cantonese learners can draw on L1 phonotactic knowledge to improvise creative and effective strategies to attain L2 durational targets.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"1219 - 1234"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43383847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy 内含韵律训练对二语重音和元音准确性的影响

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221124075

Peng Li, Florence Baills, L. Baqué, P. Prieto

{"title":"The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy","authors":"Peng Li, Florence Baills, L. Baqué, P. Prieto","doi":"10.1177/02676583221124075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221124075","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the effects of embodied prosodic training on the production of non-native French front rounded vowels (i.e. /y, ø, œ/) and the overall pronunciation proficiency. Fifty-seven Catalan learners of French practiced pronunciation in one of two conditions: one group observed hand gestures embodying prosodic features of the sentences they were listening to, while the other group did not see any such gestures. The learning outcome was assessed in a pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest through a dialogue-reading task and a sentence imitation task in terms of accentedness, comprehensibility and fluency scores, and through formant analysis of participant-produced target vowels. The results showed that compared to non-embodied training, embodied prosodic training yielded continuous improvement in accentedness in both tasks and improved the F2 values of French front rounded vowels (more fronted). As for comprehensibility and fluency scores, both groups showed similar levels of significant improvement. This study highlights the interaction between prosodic and segmental features of speech by showing that training with embodied prosodic features benefitted accentedness and the production accuracy of non-native vowels.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"1077 - 1105"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46006376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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