Second language lexical processes : applied linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives / edited by Zsolt Lengyel and Judit Navracsics.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lengyel, Zsolt.

Navracsics, Judit, 1960-

Series:

Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ; 23.

Second language acquisition ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Lexicology--Psychological aspects.

Lexicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The book contains studies on second language lexical processes based on empirical findings by authors mostly from Central Europe. The reader may have access to how lexical items are stored in the memory and also to how second language lexicons work in speech processing. Questions of the two lexicons’ integration or separation, the fashion of bilingual word storage, vocabulary acquisition and assessment, word retrieval from the memory and lexical access are the focus of the studies. The authors of the studies refer to analyses of different psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. a word association test, speech perception tests, a Cloze-test). Assessment of written work of second language learners both at secondary school and university levels is also provided. Second language lexical acquisition processes are described and the influences of different types of languages on each other are shown. The second languages involved are mainly internationally less widely investigated and published languages of Finno-Ugric (i.e. Hungarian) and Indo-European (e.g. Croatian, Polish, Russian, etc.) origin next to the more frequently studied English and German. The studies included in our volume focus on lexical acquisition and processing and also make reference to pedagogical questions. They include investigations of lexical perception, production, acquisitional processes and vocabulary assessment. The novelty of the book is that the studies make reference to Hungarian and a number of Slavic languages. They provide the reader with new perspectives on second language lexical acquisition processes when the source language and the target language are distinct from a typological point of view, the lexicon in processing terms. The book is intended for the use of undergraduate and graduate students of second language studies, psycholinguistics and/or bilingualism researchers, teachers and academics whose interests include a second language acquisition component.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

The Contributors

Preface

1. How Integrated is the Integrated Mental Lexicon?

2. Word Classes and the Bilingual Mental Lexicon

3. Speech Perception Processing in First and Second Language in Bilinguals and L2 Learners

4. A Comparative Study of Mother-Tongue and Foreign Language Speech Perception, Lexical Access and Speech Comprehension Processes

5. Slip of the Doctor’s Eye: Recognising English Contact Induced Features in Hungarian Medical Texts

6. Vocabulary Assessment in Writing: Lexical Statistics

7. The Use of High- and Low-Frequency Verbs in English Native and Non-Native Student Writing

8. Selection of Grammatical Morphemes in Early Bilingual Development

9 The Importance of Language Specific Features For Vocabulary Acquisition: An Example of Croatian

10. Analysing L2 Lexical Processes Via C Test

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786610935017

9781788920643

1788920643

9781280935015

1280935014

9781853599682

1853599689

OCLC:

437186749