By employing an online acceptability judgment task and using specific multi-word chunks as research stimuli,this study investigated the impact of chunk meaning on Chinese English learners'mental representation of frame chunks.The findings revealed that:Chinese English learners exhibited a type frequency effect in the processing of low-meaning chunks,indicating that even frequently occur-ring frame chunks with lower degree of meaning possess psychological reality;however,the type frequency effect did not appear in the pro-cessing of high-meaning chunks,suggesting that compared to low-meaning chunks,the processing of high-meaning chunks may not sig-nificantly rely on type frequency information.Overall,the study confirmed the psychological reality of Chinese English learners'frame chunks,providing some supportive evidence to the usage-based approach to language acquisition and the teaching of second language frame chunks.
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