Journal article
Lexical accessing for ambiguous words among advanced Chinese L2 learners
Chinese as a second language, Vol.52(3), pp.209-231
12/14/2017
DOI: 10.1075/csl.52.3.01she
Abstract
This study investigated factors associated with and strategies used by advanced Chinese L2 learners in accessing the meanings of commonly used polysemous words (lexically ambiguous words) in sentential reading. The participants included 26 learners of Chinese from a Midwest university in the US. The results showed that word frequency, meaning frequency of polysemous words, and learners’ knowledge of polysemous words affected successful lexical access in sentential contexts. Learners mainly used five types of strategies to solve lexical ambiguity problems, of which three were more frequently used: contextual cues, the intra-word analysis method, and the dominant meaning cue. Contextual cues were the most frequently used strategy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Lexical accessing for ambiguous words among advanced Chinese L2 learners
- Creators
- Helen H Shen - The University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Chinese as a second language, Vol.52(3), pp.209-231
- DOI
- 10.1075/csl.52.3.01she
- ISSN
- 2451-828X
- eISSN
- 2451-8298
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/14/2017
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983983673802771
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