Pictorial Referents Facilitate Recognition and Retrieval Speeds of Associations Between Novel Words in a Second Language (L2) and Referents

This study reveals associative processes for novel words in a second language (L2) and their referents. Thirty Japanese participants learned associative pairs for novel words in Chinese and pictorial referents (CP), as well as novel words in Chinese and words in Japanese (CJ), against a condition in...

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Main Authors: Xinyi Liu, Hiroki Horinouchi, Yutao Yang, Yan Yan, Misa Ando, Ukwueze Jonah Obinna, Shushi Namba, Toshimune Kambara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.605009/full