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ERIC Number: EJ1232964
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Dec
Pages: 35
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ISSN: ISSN-0023-8333
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Constructional Processing in a Second Language: The Role of Constructional Knowledge in Verb-Construction Integration
Kim, Hyunwoo; Rah, Yangon
Language Learning, v69 n4 p1022-1056 Dec 2019
The constructionist approach holds that an argument structure construction, a conventionalized form-meaning correspondence of a sentence, allows language users to efficiently access sentential information. This study investigated whether increased sensitivity to constructional information would enable second language learners to efficiently fuse information from a verb and a construction during real-time sentence processing. Based on their performance in an English sentence sorting task, we divided Korean-speaking learners of English into construction-centered and verb-centered groups depending on their degree of reliance on constructional information in sorting. These groups were then administered a self-paced reading task where learners read English constructions in a word-by-word fashion. Results showed that learners' reading time was contingent upon constructional sensitivity such that the construction-centered group was faster than the verb-centered group at integrating argument roles between a verb and a construction. These findings provide new evidence that constructional information can facilitate second language sentence processing.
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Language: English
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