Acquiring an Artificial Logographic Orthography  

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Ehrich, John F. ; Meuter, Renata F.I.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 40 no. 5 (Sep. 2009), page 711-745.
Topik: Developemental; Cognitie; Language; Learning/Cognition
Fulltext: JCCP_40_05_711.pdf (702.47KB)

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To dat, studies have focused on the acquisition of alphabetic second languages in alphabetic first language (L1) users, demonstrating significant transfer effects. The present study examines the process from a reverse perspectie, comparing logographic (Mandarin-Chinese) and alphabetic (English) L1 users in the acquisition of an artificial logographic script to determine whether similar language-specific advantageous transfer effects occurred. Chinese-English bilinguals, English-French bilinguals, and English monolinguals learned a small set of symbols (six nouns and six verbs) in an artificial logograhpic script. A lexical decision task on the artificial symbols revealed marekdly faster response times in the Chinese-English bilinguals, indicating a logographic transfer effect suggestive of a language experience-specific advantage. A syntactic decision task evaluated the degree to which the new language was mastered beyond the single word level. No L1-specific transfer effects were found for artificial language strings. However, when carrying out the same task in the native language, both the Chinese-English and the English-French bilinguals outperformed the English monolinguals, indicative of a bilingual processing advantage. The results are discussed in relation to possible differences in processing styles relating to logographic versus alphabetic languages, variably involving visual versus phonological coding.

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