The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production

Some idiomatic expressions are associated with concepts that are deeply interlaced in L1 and L2 cultures. This property motivates investigation of cross-linguistic similarities which could affect the storage, representation and production of L2 idioms. In a priming experiment, the response latencies...

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Main Authors:	Masoomeh Yeganehjoo, Yap, Ngee Thai, Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan, Bee Hoon
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Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5759/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5759/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5759/1/1687-3184-1-SM%5B1%5D.pdf

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spelling	ukm-57592016-12-14T06:39:26Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5759/ The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production Masoomeh Yeganehjoo, Yap, Ngee Thai Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan, Bee Hoon Some idiomatic expressions are associated with concepts that are deeply interlaced in L1 and L2 cultures. This property motivates investigation of cross-linguistic similarities which could affect the storage, representation and production of L2 idioms. In a priming experiment, the response latencies of 27 competent Iranian learners of English were measured to determine how cross-linguistic similarities at both the conceptual and lexical levels can influence the production of English idiomatic expressions. The participants were exposed to auditory primes in Persian that share some degree of similarity between the L2 idiom and its L1 idiom counterpart. The study found that the Persian prime that is the shared lexical item in both the L1 and L2 idioms and the idiom key for the L1 idiom exhibited the shortest reaction time for the production of the L2 idiom. The Persian prime that was the shared concept for both the L1 and L2 idioms did not facilitate the production of the L2 idiom. It recorded the longest reaction time and statistical analysis showed no significant difference in the reaction time with the control condition which used Persian primes that were semantically and phonologically unrelated to both the L1 and L2 idioms. The results of this study suggest that the related primes that were concrete lexical units make a greater contribution in the recall of the L2 idiomatic expressions compared to the abstract shared figurative meaning. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5759/1/1687-3184-1-SM%5B1%5D.pdf Masoomeh Yeganehjoo, and Yap, Ngee Thai and Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, and Tan, Bee Hoon (2012) The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 18 (4). pp. 91-107. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description	Some idiomatic expressions are associated with concepts that are deeply interlaced in L1 and L2 cultures. This property motivates investigation of cross-linguistic similarities which could affect the storage, representation and production of L2 idioms. In a priming experiment, the response latencies of 27 competent Iranian learners of English were measured to determine how cross-linguistic similarities at both the conceptual and lexical levels can influence the production of English idiomatic expressions. The participants were exposed to auditory primes in Persian that share some degree of similarity between the L2 idiom and its L1 idiom counterpart. The study found that the Persian prime that is the shared lexical item in both the L1 and L2 idioms and the idiom key for the L1 idiom exhibited the shortest reaction time for the production of the L2 idiom. The Persian prime that was the shared concept for both the L1 and L2 idioms did not facilitate the production of the L2 idiom. It recorded the longest reaction time and statistical analysis showed no significant difference in the reaction time with the control condition which used Persian primes that were semantically and phonologically unrelated to both the L1 and L2 idioms. The results of this study suggest that the related primes that were concrete lexical units make a greater contribution in the recall of the L2 idiomatic expressions compared to the abstract shared figurative meaning.
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author	Masoomeh Yeganehjoo, Yap, Ngee Thai Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan, Bee Hoon
spellingShingle	Masoomeh Yeganehjoo, Yap, Ngee Thai Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan, Bee Hoon The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production
author_facet	Masoomeh Yeganehjoo, Yap, Ngee Thai Mardziah Hayati Abdullah, Tan, Bee Hoon
author_sort	Masoomeh Yeganehjoo,
title	The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production
title_short	The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production
title_full	The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production
title_fullStr	The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production
title_full_unstemmed	The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production
title_sort	influence of cross-linguistic similarities on l2 idiom production
publisher	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate	2012
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5759/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5759/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5759/1/1687-3184-1-SM%5B1%5D.pdf
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The influence of cross-linguistic similarities on L2 idiom production

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