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Taft, Marcus; Li, Junmin – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Monolingual English speakers and Chinese-English bilinguals were compared on their lexical decision performance in a masked priming experiment where the prime and target ended in the same embedded word. All primes were nonwords where the letters in addition to the embedded word did not form a morpheme (e.g., the "sab" of…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), English, Bilingual Students
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Li, Junmin; Taft, Marcus – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The present study examined whether Chinese-English bilinguals showed morphological sensitivity toward prefixed words. In the experiment, English monolinguals showed masked priming effects in a Transparent condition ("disagree-AGREE") and an Opaque condition ("mischief-CHIEF"), but not in a Form condition…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Chinese, English, Second Language Learning
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Li, Junmin; Taft, Marcus; Xu, Joe – Language Learning, 2017
This study examined the sensitivity of Chinese-English bilinguals to derivational word structure in English. In the first experiment, English monolinguals showed masked priming effects for prime-target pairs related both transparently (e.g., "hunter-HUNT") and opaquely (e.g., "corner-CORN") but not for those related purely in…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Chinese