The effects of frequency,structure type and language level on collocation processing in Chinese as a second language
The present study used an online acceptability judgement task to investi-gate the effects of collocation frequency,structure type and language level on Chinese L2 learners'collocation processing,with native Chinese speakers as reference.The mixed-effects model shows that frequency,structure type and language level all affected L2 learners'processing of collocations.First,native speakers and advanced and intermediate L2 learners processed high-frequency collocations faster than low-frequency collocations with higher accuracies,which indicated that L2 learners with different language levels en-joyed an advantage of collocation processing in the same way as native speakers.Second,the processing speed of collocations of different structure types varied among subjects:verb-object＞coordination＞subject-predicate＞modifier-head for native speakers;verb-ob-ject＞subject-predicate＞modifier-head＞coordination for L2 learners,suggesting that dif-ferent collocation types may activate different cognitive strategies and processing paths,thus impacting processing efficiency.Third,there was a significant interaction effect be-tween language proficiency and collocation frequency;that is,the frequency effect had a significant impact on the processing efficiency of collocations in subjects with different lan-guage levels.The higher the language level,the higher the significance level of the fre-quency effect;specifically,native speakers had a greater processing advantage of colloca-tions over L2 learners,and so did advanced level L2 learners over intermediate level L2 learners.
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