Morphological Family Size Effects in Young First and Second Language Learners: Evidence of Cross‐Language Semantic Activation in Visual Word Recognition
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This study examined to what extent young second language (L2) learners showed morphological family size effects in L2 word recognition and whether the effects were grade‐level related. Turkish‐Dutch bilingual children (L2) and Dutch (first language, L1) children from second, fourth, and sixth grade performed a Dutch lexical decision task on words with varying family sizes. The responses of both L1 and L2 children were more accurate (in second grade) and faster (in fourth and sixth grades) for words with a large family than for words with a small family, even though the L2 children had a smaller vocabulary size in Dutch than the L1 children. These findings show how the spreading of semantic activation across languages can influence word recognition in L2 learners.
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Morphological analysis is a relative strength in L2 readers.
“This is in line with earlier findings of morphological analysis being a relative strength in L2 readers (de Zeeuw et al., 2012;Shahar-Yames et al., 2018).”
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- Authors
- de Zeeuw, M., Verhoeven, L., & Schreuder, R.
- Affiliations
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- ORCID
- Verhoeven, Ludo
- Venue
- Language Learning
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-01-09
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 68-92
- ISSN
- 0023-8333 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9922
- OpenAlex
- W2136987290
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 23 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 5.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Language Learning (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Keywords
- visual word recognition, semantic activation, grade level differences, vocabulary size, lexical decision, morphological processing
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