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Qian, Leyi; Li, Kangxi; Cheng, Yan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The aim of this study is to shed light on the learnability regarding usages of three English articles ("a," "the" and zero) among Chinese EFL learners. To this end, three tasks were administered in a pool of 107 participants to examine the extent to which learners can accurately use articles across different semantic contexts…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Variation, Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage
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Thierfelder, Philip; Durantin, Gautier; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the effects of contextual predictability on orthographic and phonological activation during Chinese sentence reading by Cantonese-speaking readers using the error disruption paradigm. Participants' eye fixations and pupil sizes were recorded while they silently read Chinese sentences containing homophonic,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Reading Processes, Sino Tibetan Languages, Eye Movements
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Kkese, E.; Petinou, K. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
This paper investigates the difficulties adult second language (L2) users of English encounter with plosive consonants in the L2. It presents the results of a task examining the acquisition of plosive voicing contrasts by college students with Cypriot Greek (CG) linguistic background. The task focused on the types of errors involving plosive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Hsu, Hsiu-ling – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
Through analyzing response latencies, errors, and self-repairs in Mandarin, this investigation explores how monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual adults process their speech production differently using cognitive control mechanisms. In this study we conducted two experiments involving speech production in Mandarin. In the two experiments, 81…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Error Analysis (Language)
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Anton-Mendez, Ines – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010
To address questions about information processing at the message level, pronoun errors of second language (L2) speakers of English were studied. Some L2 pronoun errors--"he/she" confusions by Spanish speakers of L2 English--could be due to differences in the informational requirements of the speakers' two languages, providing a window into the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), French, Cognitive Processes
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Takashima, Hiroomi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
Ease of processing of 3,969 English words for native speakers and Japanese learners was investigated using lexical decision and naming latencies taken from the English Lexicon Project (Balota et al. The English Lexicon Project: A web-based repository of descriptive and behavioral measures for 40,481 English words and nonwords, 2002) and accuracy…
Descriptors: Translation, Dictionaries, English (Second Language), Comparative Analysis