摘要
The present study investigates the effects of congruency and frequency on adjective-noun collocational processing for Chinese learners of English at two proficiency levels based on the data obtained in an online acceptability judgment task.The subject pool of this research included 60 English majors studying at a university in China;30 were selected as a higher-proficiency group and 30 as a lower-proficiency group according to their Vocabulary Levels Test(Schmitt et al.,2001)scores and their self-reported proficiency in English.The experimental materials were programmed to E-prime 2.0 and included six types of collocations:(1)15 high-frequency congruent collocations,(2)15 low-frequency congruent collocations,(3)15 high-frequency incongruent collocations,(4)15 low-frequency incongruent collocations,(5)15 Chinese-only items,and(6)75 unrelated items for baseline data.The collected response times(RTs)and accuracy rates data were statistically analyzed by the use of an ANOVA test and pairwise comparisons through SPSS 16.0 software.The results revealed that:(1)the adjective-noun collocational processing of Chinese English learners is influenced by collocational frequency,congruency and L2 proficiency;(2)the processing time is affected by the interaction of congruency and frequency;and(3)the interactive effect of L2 proficiency in conjunction with congruency and frequency also influences the processing quality.
本研究采用在线可接受度判断任务,研究了英语形容词-名词搭配中语义一致性和频率对不同英语水平的中国英语学习者的加工影响。研究对象为中国某大学的60名英语专业学生,根据他们的词汇水平测试分数和自我报告的英语水平,我们将其分为了高水平组(30名)和低水平组(30名)。实验采用E-prime 2.0编程,实验材料共包括六种类型的形名搭配:(1)15个高频一致搭配,(2)15个低频一致搭配,(3)15个高频不一致搭配,(4)15个低频不一致搭配,(5)15个一语(中文)独有搭配,以及(6)75个无关项目作为基线组。通过SPSS 16.0软件对收集到的反应时间和准确率数据进行了ANOVA检验和两两比较的统计分析。结果显示:(1)形名搭配的加工受到搭配频率、语义一致性和二语水平的影响;(2)搭配加工时间受到语义一致性和频率的交互作用的影响;(3)二语水平与语义一致性和频率的交互作用也影响了加工的质量。
基金
国家社科基金重点项目“中国英语学习者二语语用能力发展研究”(项目编号:17AYY023)的阶段性成果。
