Effects of linguistic distributional information on English verb-noun collocation processing
This study explored the effects of linguistic distributional information on the processing of collocations by English native speakers(NSs)and Chinese university students using a primed lexical decision task(PLDT).Results reveal the following:1)In the forward PLDT,NSs exhibited priming effects for both right-and left-oriented collocations,with a higher priming magnitude observed for right-oriented collocations.Fourth-year English major students showed priming effects only for right-oriented collocations.2)In the backward PLDT,NSs demonstrated priming effects for both right-and left-oriented collocations,with a higher priming magnitude observed for left-oriented collocations.Fourth-year English major students displayed priming effects only for left-oriented collocations.3)Second-year English major students showed no priming effects in either the forward or backward PLDT.4)Collocational frequency,word frequency,and association strength significantly predicted the priming magnitude for NSs,while collocational frequency and word frequency significantly predicted the priming magnitude for fourth-year English major students.This study asserts that the collocational representations of NSs and second language learners are influenced by linguistic distributional information,and emphasizes directionality as a key variable to be considered in the assessment of collocation processing.
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