dráma 4 felvonásban - írta Eugéne Brieux - fordította Zigány Árpád - rendező Kemény Lajos

Városi Szinház. Debreczen, 1913 február 15 -én szombaton: K. Hegyesy Mari és Beregi Oszkár a budapesti nemzeti szinház művészeinek együttes felléptével.Debreceni Egyetem Egyetemi és Nemzeti Könyvtá

Native and L2 processing of homonyms in sentential context

We compare native and non-native processing of homonyms in sentence context whose two most frequent meanings are nouns (e.g., sentence) or a noun and a verb (e.g., trip). With both participant groups, we conducted a combined reaction time (RT)/event-related brain potential (ERP) lexical decision experiment with two stimulus-onset asynchronies (SOAs) of 200 and 500 ms. At the 200 ms SOA, overall RT and ERP N400 priming was observed in both natives and non-natives, indicating multiple access for both homonym types. At the 500 ms SOA, RTs revealed that contextually inappropriate meanings were no longer active for both groups. In contrast, the ERP data showed that activation of inappropriate meanings had decayed for natives, but not for non-natives. Results suggest that non-natives show native-like multiple access at an early processing stage, but differ from the natives later in processing when sentence context information is used to disambiguate meanings

First language polysemy affects second language meaning interpretation: Evidence for activation of first language concepts during second language reading

The present study investigates the influence of first language (L1) lexicalization patterns on the processing of second language (L2) words in sentential contexts by advanced German learners of English. The focus was on cases where a polysemous word in the L1 is real- ized by independent words in the L2, e.g. German Blase realized by English bubble and blister . An anomaly detection task was used in which participants had to indicate whether a target word formed an acceptable completion to a sentence. The critical condition was where the other sense ( blister ) of the translation equivalent Blase was appropriate, but the word ( bubble ) did not complete the sen- tence meaningfully, e.g. ‘His shoes were uncomfortable due to a bubble.’ This was compared to a control condition in which neither sense of the L1 translation made sense, e.g. ‘She was very hungry because of a bubble.’Factors of word type (noun vs. verb) and degree of relatedness of L1 senses (high vs. moderate) were also manipu- lated. Relative to native speakers of English, advanced German learn- ers made more errors and displayed longer correct response times in the critical condition compared to the control condition. An effect of meaning relatedness was obtained for nouns but not verbs. The results are discussed in terms of the role of lexical-level translation connections in activating L1 concepts from L2 words, even in highly proficient learners and in all-L2 tasks

The role of proficiency on processing categorical and associative information in the L2 as revealed by reaction times and event-related brain potentials

Event-related brain potentials (ERP) studies show that L2 learners can exhibit relatively native-like processing patterns in semantics [Bilingual.: Lang. Cogn. 4 (2001) 123], but examining different semantic information types—associative and categorical—shows that L2 semantic processing is sensitive to proficiency. If the links between concepts and L2 words are weak for L2 learners [J. Memory Lang. 33 (1994) 149; Memory Cogn. 23 (1995) 166], then lower proficiency learners are less likely to show native-like RT and ERP N400 priming effects for categorical pairs (boy–junior) than are more advanced learners. If proficiency modulates the automaticity of processing in the L2 lexical network, less proficient late learners may also differ from advanced learners in associative priming (boy–girl). We report proficiency effects with ERP and RT data from word list priming performed by advanced and less proficient late German learners of English. The advanced learners showed associative RT and N400 ERP priming effects similar to early advanced learners and native speakers [Bilingual.: Lang. Cogn. 4 (2001) 143], but very limited categorical priming effects. The lower proficiency group showed no RT effects for either categorical or associative pairs but associative N400 priming. Results suggest that in a fast word list priming task, proficiency and the type of semantic information processed are important determinants of how autonomous L2 semantic processing can be