Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Density,Type of Word Class and Proficiency Level on Chinese EFL Learners'Word Association Responses
This study explored the effects of phonological neighborhood density(PND),type of word class and learner proficiency on English word association responses of Chinese tertiary learners.Lex_30 was applied to measure language proficiency and listen-write word association task was chosen to examine differences between association responses of degree of PND and type of word class.Results showed that(1)there are significant differences between high and low proficiency level learners'phonological and semantic responses and the higher the proficiency level,the lower the phonological response;(2)words of different classes elici-ted significant semantic responses yet not phonological ones;(3)words of different PNDs elicited significant semantic responses of learners of high proficiency level,while those of low proficiency level performed significant differences only in noun,which partially supports Neighborhood Activation Model.
phonological neighborhood density(PND)type of word classproficiency levelword associationphonologi-cal-semantic response
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
维普
