The word frequency effect in first- and second-language reading by Chinese and Dutch bilinguals

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作者：

Sui, Longjiao ^{[1
]}

Woumans, Evy ^{[2
]}

Duyck, Wouter ^{[3
,4
]}

Dirix, Nicolas ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Dalian Maritime Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Dalian, Peoples R China

[2] Univ Ghent, Dept Translat Interpreting & Commun, Ghent, Belgium

[3] Univ Ghent, Dept Expt Psychol, Ghent, Belgium

[4] Accreditat Org Netherlands & Flanders NVAO, Den Hague, Netherlands

来源：

BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION | 2024年

关键词：

frequency effects; reading; bilingualism; eye-movements; cross-linguistic comparison; LEXICAL DECISION DATA; EYE-MOVEMENTS; CHARACTER FREQUENCY; VISUAL COMPLEXITY; RECOGNITION; PROJECT; ENTRENCHMENT; PREDICTABILITY; ACTIVATION; READERS;

D O I：

10.1017/S136672892400035X

中图分类号：

H0 [语言学];

学科分类号：

030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;

摘要：

High-frequency words are processed faster than low-frequency words, known as the word frequency effect (FE). Although the FE has been studied in various writing systems as well as in first- (L1) and second-language (L2) reading, existing theoretical hypotheses are mainly based on findings in alphabetic languages. To date, no study has investigated theoretical explanations of the FE such as the learning hypothesis, the lexical entrenchment hypothesis and the rank hypothesis apply to Chinese-English bilinguals. The present study, therefore, compared the FEs in Chinese- and Dutch-English bilinguals during natural paragraph reading in their L1 and L2, using eye-tracking measures. Chinese bilinguals exhibited a larger FE in L2 than in L1. They displayed smaller L1 FEs and much steeper L2 FE curves than Dutch bilinguals. These findings are not entirely consistent with the existing FE hypotheses, and the present study discusses theoretical accounts in light of the observed results.

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