第二言語の視覚的単語認知の処理パターン : 日本語母語話者と中国語母語話者の比較

抄録

The present study was designed to examine whether the second language (L2) visual word recognition is affected by the first language (L1) word processing pattern. Participants were divided into two groups according to their L1, the Japanese native speakers and the Chinese native speakers. Priming lexical-decision task for English word was performed in both groups. The stimulus-onset-asynchrony (SOA) condition between the prime stimuli and target stimuli was varied in Experiments 1 (200ms) and 2 (800ms). In Experiment 1, the Japanese group showed a strong facilitation effect with phonological priming and the Chinese group showed a strong facilitation effect with orthographic priming on L2 English word recognition. A similar pattern of the results of Experiment 1 emerged in Experiment 2. These results suggest that the processing pattern of L1 word may be automatically activated in L2 English word recognition. In other words, the cognitive strategies of L1 constrain the shaping of L2 word processing pattern.