Animacy Effect and Language Specificity: Judgment of Unaccusative Verbs by Korean Learners of English as a Foreign Language

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hye K. Pae ◽  
Brian Schanding ◽  
Yeon-Jin Kwon ◽  
Yong-Won Lee
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Unaccusative Verbs ◽  
Korean Learners ◽  
Korean Learners Of English

scholarly journals THE EFFECTS OF READING ACTIVITY CHARACTERISTICS ON L2 READING PROCESSES AND NOTICING OF GLOSSED CONSTRUCTIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jookyoung Jung ◽  
Andrea Révész
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Reading ◽  
L2 Reading ◽  
Reading Processes ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Recall Data ◽  
Unaccusative Verbs ◽  
Reading Activity ◽  
Reading Activities ◽  
Korean Learners ◽  
Korean Learners Of English

AbstractThis study examined the extent to which manipulating the characteristics of second language reading activities affects the reading process and noticing of glossed linguistic constructions. Thirty-eight Korean learners of English read two texts under conditions that required more or less careful reading. For the condition intended to promote more careful reading, each paragraph of the texts was divided into three or four subparts. For the condition expected to elicit less careful reading, each paragraph was split into two sections. While reading the texts, the participants’ eye movements were recorded. Eleven students were further invited to participate in stimulated recall protocols. The target constructions were English unaccusative verbs and 10 pseudowords, which were glossed with Korean translations. The eye movement and stimulated recall data indicated that, as predicted, the participants processed the texts more carefully and attended to the target verbs more closely when paragraphs were divided into more subparts.

VOWEL EPENTHESIS AND SEGMENT IDENTITY IN KOREAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth de Jong ◽  
Hanyong Park
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Prosodic Structure ◽  
Vowel Epenthesis ◽  
L2 Phonology ◽  
First Languages ◽  
Korean Learners ◽  
Korean Learners Of English ◽  
Perceptual Mechanism

Recent literature has sought to understand the presence of epenthetic vowels after the productions of postvocalic word-final consonants by second language (L2) learners whose first languages (L1s) restrict the presence of obstruents in coda position. Previous models include those in which epenthesis is seen as a strategy to mitigate the effects of coda licensing restrictions in the L1; others see epenthesis as a result of misperception of consonant releases in the L2 as indicating the presence of an additional syllable nucleus. The current study examines segmental identification and syllable counting in inexperienced Korean learners of English as a foreign language. Across stimuli, two effects were found. Increased perceptual epenthesis correlated with increased identification of a segment as voiceless, indicating a joint perception of voicelessness and an epenthetic vowel. Also, rate of epenthesis increased with accuracy of detecting sibilants and coronal segments, sounds characterized by salient consonant noise. Taken together, these results indicate a perceptual mechanism that evaluates segmental content and prosodic structure from an integrated percept. Analyses across individual listeners do not support a model in which perceptual epenthesis is a strategy to increase segmental accuracy; rather, they support models in which both syllable counting and segmental identification are skills that are reflections of increased proficiency in the L2. These results are discussed with respect to models of L2 phonology that rely on the robust encoding of lexical items.

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