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Compound Verb Processing in Second Language Speakers of Persian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi*
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Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Canada
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Abstract

This study investigates compound verb processing in second language speakers (L2) of Persian. Forty-six near-native L2 speakers of Persian were tested to examine the processing of transparent (non-idiomatic) and opaque (idiomatic) compound verbs, under masked priming paradigm. The results revealed a significant nominal priming effect in the opaque condition, and a numerically stronger nominal priming effect in the transparent condition. There was also an increase in the processing load on the parser when the target was an opaque compound. The results of this study seem to be compatible with the dual access or dual route hypothesis, yet with the version that assumes the two routes are activated in parallel rather than the version that assumes high frequency words are represented lexically but low frequency words are decomposed.

Keywords

PsycholinguisticsCompound VerbsComplex PredicatesSecond Language ProcessingBilingualismAzeriPersian
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Iranian Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 137 - 158
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Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2014

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