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What's in a Word? Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge in Three Languages
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McBride-Chang, Catherine; Tardif, Twila; Cho, Jeung-Ryeul; Shu, Hua; Fletcher, Paul; Stokes, Stephanie F.; Wong, Anita; Leung, Kawai – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
Understanding how words are created is potentially a key component to being able to learn and understand new vocabulary words. However, research on morphological awareness is relatively rare. In this study, over 660 preschool-aged children from three language groups (Cantonese, Mandarin, and Korean speakers) in which compounding morphology is…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Vocabulary, Mandarin Chinese, Vocabulary Development
Native and Non-Native Processing of English "Wh-"Questions: Parsing Strategies and Plausibility Constraints.
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Williams, John N.; Mobius, Peter; Kim, Choonkyong – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2001
Investigated processing of English wh-questions by native speakers of English and advanced Chinese, German, and Korean learners of English as a Second Language. Performance was evaluated in relation to parsing strategies and sensitivity to plausibility constraints. Results suggest native and nonnative speakers employ similar strategies in…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, English (Second Language), German
Cross-Linguistic Variations in L2 Morphological Awareness.
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Koda, Keiko – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Investigated effects of first language processing on second language morphological awareness. Preliminary cross-linguistic comparisons indicated that morphological awareness in two typologically distinct languages, Chinese and English, differs in several major ways. Tested hypotheses from the study with two groups of English-as-a-Second-Language…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)