TY - JOUR
T1 - L1 Orthography in L2 Chinese Morphological Awareness
T2 - An Investigation of Alphabetic and Abugida Readers
AU - Zhang, Haomin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/2/15
Y1 - 2019/2/15
N2 - The current study aimed to explore the effect of first language (L1) orthography on second language (L2) Chinese morphological awareness. One hundred and twenty-nine students (61 L1 English readers and 68 L1 Thai readers) who studied Chinese as a second language participated in this study. They completed four tasks of morphological awareness (morpheme segmentation, morpheme discrimination, compound structure discrimination, compound structure analysis) and two control measures (reading vocabulary tasks). Drawing upon MANCOVA analysis, the study revealed that Thai readers outperformed English readers on compound awareness after the effect of L2 reading vocabulary was accounted for. The study suggests that L1 orthographic differences and similarities (e.g. interword boundary) may affect word identification, thus contributing to morphological processing of Chinese compound words. The study provided empirical evidence to support cross-language influence in morphological processing of a non-alphabetic language.
AB - The current study aimed to explore the effect of first language (L1) orthography on second language (L2) Chinese morphological awareness. One hundred and twenty-nine students (61 L1 English readers and 68 L1 Thai readers) who studied Chinese as a second language participated in this study. They completed four tasks of morphological awareness (morpheme segmentation, morpheme discrimination, compound structure discrimination, compound structure analysis) and two control measures (reading vocabulary tasks). Drawing upon MANCOVA analysis, the study revealed that Thai readers outperformed English readers on compound awareness after the effect of L2 reading vocabulary was accounted for. The study suggests that L1 orthographic differences and similarities (e.g. interword boundary) may affect word identification, thus contributing to morphological processing of Chinese compound words. The study provided empirical evidence to support cross-language influence in morphological processing of a non-alphabetic language.
KW - Compound structure
KW - Graphomorphological awareness
KW - Linguistic distance
KW - Writing system
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85049554750
U2 - 10.1007/s10936-018-9593-4
DO - 10.1007/s10936-018-9593-4
M3 - 文章
C2 - 29980997
AN - SCOPUS:85049554750
SN - 0090-6905
VL - 48
SP - 117
EP - 127
JO - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
JF - Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
IS - 1
ER -