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Lexical inferencing and the mutual intelligibility of Estonian and Finnish
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Muikku-Werner, Pirkko |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | Several factors affect the comprehension of a text written in a language related to the reader's first language (L1): (i) orthographic similarity with the reader's L1, (ii) contextual clues, (iii) semantic relationships between components of phraseological units, and (iv) L1 reading comprehension strategies. This article compares the results of a cloze test (CT), in which a group of Finns read a text in their L1 (Finnish) and filled the gaps, and a translation test (TT), in which another group of Finns translated the Estonian version of the same text into Finnish. This text included five pairs of primes and targets, parts of the same phraseological unit, representing different semantic relations; in the CT the target was replaced by a gap and in the TT the respondents had to translate the target. The results indicated that the respondents used similar inferencing strategies in both tests, and thus provide evidence for the assumption that orthographic similarity is not the sole factor contributing to understanding a foreign text, but that L1 reading comprehension strategies are also employed. |
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| Ending Page | 223 |
| Page Count | 23 |
| Starting Page | 201 |
| ISSN | 03325865 |
| e-ISSN | 15024717 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0332586517000105 |
| Journal | Nordic Journal of Linguistics |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 40 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2017-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Nordic Journal of Linguistics Language Studies Phraseological Unit Receptive Multilingualism Semantic Priming |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Linguistics and Language |
