L'inférence lexicale chez des locuteurs de français et des locuteurs de persan lors de la lecture de textes anglais : effet de la lexicalisation en première langue

Abstract

Abstract: This paper reports on an introspective study that compared lexical inferencing behaviours of Farsi and French speaking readers of English when they encountered unfamiliar words that are lexicalized versus those which are not lexicalized in their native language. Subjects were 20 Farsi-speaking and 20 French-speaking intermediate level learners of English in educational contexts. The results indicate many similarities but also some differences in these learners' guessing patterns of the target English words. The findings are interpreted in light of the linguistic features of the participants' native languages, their first language processing habits, as well as the context of their target language learning.