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  • 标题:Better to Be Alone than in Bad Company: Cognate Synonyms Impair Word Learning
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  • 作者:Eneko Antón ; Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
  • 期刊名称:Behavioral Sciences
  • 电子版ISSN:2076-328X
  • 出版年度:2020
  • 卷号:10
  • 期号:8
  • 页码:123-133
  • DOI:10.3390/bs10080123
  • 出版社:MDPI Publishing
  • 摘要:The effects of cognate synonymy in L2 word learning are explored. Participants learned the names of well-known concrete concepts in a new fictional language following a picture-word association paradigm. Half of the concepts (set A) had two possible translations in the new language (i.e., both words were synonyms): one was a cognate in participants’ L1 and the other one was not. The other half of the concepts (set B) had only one possible translation in the new language, a non-cognate word. After learning the new words, participants’ memory was tested in a picture-word matching task and a translation recognition task. In line with previous findings, our results clearly indicate that cognates are much easier to learn, as we found that the cognate translation was remembered much better than both its non-cognate synonym and the non-cognate from set B. Our results also seem to suggest that non-cognates without cognate synonyms (set B) are better learned than non-cognates with cognate synonyms (set A). This suggests that, at early stages of L2 acquisition, learning a cognate would produce a poorer acquisition of its non-cognate synonym, as compared to a solely learned non-cognate. These results are discussed in the light of different theories and models of bilingual mental lexicon.
  • 关键词:second language learning; word learning; cognate effect; synonymy; picture word association second language learning ; word learning ; cognate effect ; synonymy ; picture word association
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