On links between constructional representations for Chinese EFL learners:Evidence from cross-constructional priming
This study utilises a"maze"-variant self-paced reading experiment to investigate the cross-constructional priming effects and their directions in online sentence processing by Chinese EFL learners.It focuses on three kinds of non-alternative English causative constructions—caused-motion,resultative,and into-causative—to explore the linking patterns and activation mechanisms of L2 constructional representations.The findings indicate that:1)two types of cross-constructional priming,facilitatory and inhibitory,are found across causative constructions,suggesting that formal and semantic similarities between constructions are crucial for activating L2 grammatical networks and establishing representational connections;2)unidirectional priming from the caused-motion to the into-causative confirms the hypothesis of inheritance links,whereas bidirectional priming between the caused-motion and resultatives aligns with the hypothesis of horizontal links.Thus,L2 constructional networks appear to encompass various types of associative links.These findings not only provide empirical support for grammatical network models in cognitive linguistics but also offer valuable insights for construction-based approaches to L2 English instruction.
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