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Processing Collocations in First (L1) and Second Languages (L2): Effects of Collocation- and Word-Level Variables on Speakers Varying in Proficiency and Dominance
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Wendy Guo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Collocations are words that have a tendency to co-occur within a few words' spans, e.g., "drink coffee" and "dark chocolate" in English. Growing empirical evidence suggests that both native (L1) speakers and advanced second language (L2) learners process two-word collocations faster than unconnected word pairs, and that…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning