The automatic cognate form assumption: Evidence for the parasitic model of vocabulary development  

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Hall, Christopher J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 40 no. 2 (2002), page 69-88.
Fulltext: 40_02_Hall.pdf (155.58KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/40 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The Parasitic Hypothesis, formulated to account for early stages of vocabulary development in second language learners, claims that on initial exposure to a word, learners automatically exploit existing lexical material in the L1 or L2 in order to establish an initial memory representation. At the level of phonological and orthographic form, it is claimed that significant overlaps with existing forms, i.e. cognates, are automatically detected and new forms are subordinately connected to them in the mental lexicon. In the study reported here, English nonwords overlapping with real words in Spanish (pseudo cognates), together with noncognate nonwords, were presented to Spanish speaking learners of English in a word familiarity task. Participants reported significantly higher levels of familiarity with the pseudo cognates and showed greater consistency in providing translations for them. These results, together with measures of the degree of overlap between nonword stimuli and translations, were interpreted as evidence for the automatic use of cognates in early word learning.

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