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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
卷 66, 期 5, 页码 843-863出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.720994
关键词
Bilingualism; Word frequency; Proficiency; Lexical quality; Quantitative analysis
We investigate the origin of differences in the word frequency effect between native speakers and second-language speakers. In a large-scale analysis of English word identification times we find that group-level differences are fully accounted for by the individual language proficiency scores. Furthermore, exactly the same quantitative relation between word frequency and proficiency is found for monolinguals and three different bilingual populations (DutchEnglish, FrenchEnglish, and GermanEnglish). We conclude that the larger frequency effects for second-language processing than for native-language processing can be explained by within-language characteristics and thus need not be the consequence of being bilingual (i.e., a qualitative difference). More specifically, we argue that language proficiency increases lexical entrenchment, which leads to a reduced frequency effect, irrespective of bilingualism, language dominance, and language similarity.
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