Grammaticality judgment of Chinese and English sentences by native speakers of alphasyllabary: A reaction time study

• Che Kan Leong ^[1] ; Linda T.H. Tsung ^[2] ; Shek Kam Tse ^[3] ; Mark Shui Kee Shum ^[3] ; Wing Wah Ki ^[3]
  1. [1] University of Saskatchewan

     University of Saskatchewan

     Canadá

     
  2. [2] University of Sydney

     University of Sydney

     Australia

     
  3. [3] University of Hong Kong, China

  Mostrar afiliaciones +
• Localización: International Journal of Bilingualism: interdisciplinary studies of multilingual behaviour, ISSN 1367-0069, Vol. 16, Nº. 4, 2012, págs. 428-445
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1177/1367006911425822
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • A group of 118 sixteen-year-old students of ethnic Indian and Pakistani origin, learning school Chinese, judged on-line the grammaticality of 18 pairs of sentences in Chinese and English. We hypothesized: (a) The students might not perform worse in simple Chinese sentence processing as compared with equivalent English sentences. (b) There would be an overall school effect as proxy for learning experience. (c) Grammatically correct sentences would be processed more efficiently than anomalous ones. MANCOVA (age as covariate) and efficiency indices, by taking into account both accuracy and reaction time, support the hypotheses. The results are discussed in learning form and meaning of school Chinese.