The Roles of Context and Word Morphology in Learning New Kanji Words.  

Oleh:

Mori, Yoshiko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Modern Language Journal (sebagian Full Text & ada di JSTOR) vol. 87 no. 3 (Sep. 2003), page 404-420.
Topik: The Roles of Context; Word Morphology; New Kanji Words
Fulltext: Vol 87 no 3 pp.404-420.pdf (544.0KB)

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This study explores quantitative and qualitative differences between context and word mor- phology as determinants of students' guesses of the meanings of novel kanji compounds (i.e., words consisting of two or more Chinese characters). In this study, 74 Japanese language learners interpreted unknown compounds consisting of familiar characters under three con- ditions (i.e., words in isolation, contextual clues only, and both). When the students' guesses were compared against the actual meanings, context and word morphology were equally effective. However, the combined effect of both sources was the best, suggesting that the 2 sources provide information that does not overlap. Students expressed higher confidence in their context-based guesses than in their words-in-isolation guesses. Furthermore, contextual clues generated more syntactically related guesses than did kanji clues, whereas kanji clues yielded more semantically related guesses than did context. In general, the strength of contextual support and morphological transparency worked additively when combined but sometimes affected each other negatively. These findings suggest that context and word morphology play different roles in word inference.

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