Semantic networks of words in lexical availability studies of English L1 and English FL
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.21.05Keywords:
lexical availability, semantic networks, semantic categories, mental lexiconAbstract
Lexical availability has been widely used in the Spanish-speaking world
for more than two decades. However, only in recent years has there been
growing interest in its cognitive aspects. The present article deals with
semantic relations of words in lexical availabily tests. A group of advanced
EFL students, native speakers of Spanish, and a similar group of native
speakers of English were examined. These subjects were given a lexical
availability test that required them to produce words from different semantic
categories. The resulting semantic relations were then made explicit by
means of several graphs or semantic networks which showed that EFL
students distinguish only large semantic categories, while native speakers
of English organise words into highly specific subcategories.
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