Can Language Non-Selective Activation be Seen in the Processing of Lexical Syntactic Information?: An Eye-Tracking Study on Reading Cognates in L2-Japanese with Different L1-Chinese Passive Frequencies by Chinese-Japanese Bilinguals

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  • 2言語間の非選択的活性化は統語情報の処理においても起こるか ―日中同形同義漢語動詞の受動態の処理を例に―
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Previous experimental studies suggest that bilinguals’lexical access is language non<br>selective, and that L1 word frequency plays a role in L2 word recognition. The current<br> eye-tracking study investigated L1 frequency effects of lexical syntactic information<br> during reading. Chinese-Japanese bilinguals read L2-Japanese sentences containing<br> two types of cognate verbal nouns. Though these words were cognates, they differed<br> in the frequency with which they appeared as passives between Japanese and Chinese.<br> Stimuli items were all displayed in Japanese in either their active or passive voice form<br> for both the experimental (low frequency of L1-Chinese passive usage, e.g., 指示‘in-<br>struct’) and control (high frequency of L1-Chinese passive usage, e.g., 逮捕‘arrest’)<br> conditions. The frequencies in L2-Japanese were controlled to be equal for all items.<br> The results demonstrated that cognates with low frequency of L1-Chinese passive usage<br> induced longer L2-Japanese reading times during early and late stages of processing in<br> comparison to all other conditions. These cognates also displayed lower accuracy than<br> their active voice counterparts. In conclusion, this study revealed that besides the over-<br>all word frequency, the L1 frequency of syntactic information has substantial influence<br> on the processing of the target L2 language.

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