Journal article

Publication year: 2013

Journal: Journal of Eye Movement Research

Volume number: 6

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 1995-8692

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.6.5.2

Publisher: MDPI

Abstract: 
Formulaic sequences such as idioms, collocations, and lexical bundles, which may be processed as holistic units, make up a large proportion of natural language. For language learners, however, formulaic patterns are a major barrier to achieving native like competence. The present study investigated the processing of lexical bundles by native speakers and less advanced non-native English speakers using corpus analysis for the identification of lexical bundles and eye-tracking to measure the reading times. The participants read sentences containing 4-grams and control phrases which were matched for sub-string frequency. The results for native speakers demonstrate a processing advantage for formulaic sequences over the matched control units. We do not find any processing advantage for non-native speakers which suggests that native like processing of lexical bundles comes only late in the acquisition process.

Harvard Citation style: Valsecchi, M., Künstler, V., Saage, S., White, B., Mukherjee, J. and Gegenfurtner, K. (2013) Advantage in Reading Lexical Bundles is Reduced in Non-Native Speakers, Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6(5). https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.6.5.2

APA Citation style: Valsecchi, M., Künstler, V., Saage, S., White, B., Mukherjee, J., & Gegenfurtner, K. (2013). Advantage in Reading Lexical Bundles is Reduced in Non-Native Speakers. Journal of Eye Movement Research. 6(5). https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.6.5.2