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MT syntactic priming effects on L2 English speakers.

Year: 2020

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this paper, we tested 20 Brazilian Portuguese speakers at intermediate and ad- vanced English proficiency levels to inves- tigate the influence of Google Translate’s MT system on the mental processing of English as a second language. To this end, we employed a syntactic priming experi- mental paradigm using a pretest-priming design which allowed us to compare par- ticipants’ linguistic behaviour before and after a translation task using Google Trans- late. Results show that, after performing a translation task with Google Translate, participants more frequently described im- ages in English using the syntactic alter- native previously seen in the output of Google Translate, compared to the transla- tion task with no prior influence of the MT output. Results also show that this syntac- tic priming effect is modulated by English proficiency levels.

Source: Dublin City University Open Access Institutional Repository (Dublin City University)

Authors: Natália Resende, Benjamin R. Cowan, Andy Way

Language: English

Topic: Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: European Commission, Science Foundation Ireland, Dublin City University, European Regional Development Fund

Awards: Machine Translation Impact on Language Learning, G2563910032, ADAPT: Centre for Digital Content Platform Research, G434337789

OpenAlex ID: W3081707341

FWCI: 1.3

Cites: 32

Cited by: 4

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