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SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION OF NEWLY LEARNED L2 WORDS AND THEIR INTEGRATION IN THE L2 LEXICON

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2016

Denisa Bordag ,
Amit Kirschenbaum ,
Maria Rogahn ,
Andreas Opitz  and
Erwin Tschirner
Denisa Bordag*
Affiliation:
University of Leipzig
Amit Kirschenbaum
Affiliation:
University of Leipzig
Maria Rogahn
Affiliation:
University of Leipzig
Andreas Opitz
Affiliation:
University of Leipzig
Erwin Tschirner
Affiliation:
University of Leipzig
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Denisa Bordag, Herder-Institute, University of Leipzig, Beethovenstr. 15, 04177 Leipzig, Germany. Contact: denisav@uni-leipzig.de
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Abstract

The present semantic priming study explores the integration of newly learnt L2 German words into the L2 semantic network of German advanced learners. It provides additional evidence in support of earlier findings reporting semantic inhibition effects for emergent representations. An inhibitory mechanism is proposed that temporarily decreases the resting levels of the representations with which the new representation is linked and thus enables its selection despite its low resting level.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 197 - 212
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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Footnotes

This research was supported by a grant BO 3615/2-1 from the German Research Council (DFG) awarded to Denisa Bordag.
We thank Thomas Pechmann for his helpful comments and Tabea Verma and Marcel Fuchs for running the experiments.

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