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Publication details [#65958]

Koda, Keiko and Sihui Ke. 2019. Is Vocabulary Knowledge Sufficient for Word-Meaning Inference? An Investigation of the Role of Morphological Awareness in Adult L2 Learners of Chinese. Applied Linguistics 40 (3) : 456–477.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
adult | inference | knowledge | L2-acquisition | lexicon | morphology | word meaning
Language as a subject
Chinese
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal WWW
http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study explored whether lexicon knowledge suffices for second language (L2) word-meaning inferencing. Specifically, it examined the role of learner sensitivity to a word’s morphological structure (labelled ‘morphological awareness’ or ‘MA’ hereafter) as extra aid that raises multi-character word-meaning inferencing in adult learners of L2 Chinese.