Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: 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.
Source: ONOMAZEIN
Authors: Roberto Ferreira, Max S. Echeverría
Institutions: University of York, University of Concepción
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1501762795