The mnemonic effect of noticing alliteration in lexical chunks

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1、AppliedLinguistics29/2:200222ßOxfordUniversityPress2008doi:10.1093/applin/amn007TheMnemonicEffectofNoticingAlliterationinLexicalChunks12SETHLINDSTROMBERGandFRANKBOERS12HilderstoneEFLCollege,ErasmusUniversityCollegeBrusselsIfgoodproficiencyinL2entailstheacquisitio

2、nnotonlyofmanysinglewordsbutofmanylexicalchunksaswell,itmustthenbeaskedhowallthisadditionallexisistobecommittedtolong-termmemoryinthelimitedtimeavailableonnon-intensiveclassroom-basedlanguagecourses.Ifitisthecasethatasignificantfractionofconventionalizedlexicalch

3、unksexhibitmnemonicphonologicalrepetition—alliteration—forexample,thentheL2learner’staskmaybelessdaunting.WenoteevidencethatalliterationisrelativelycommoninlexicalchunksinEnglish.Becauseofthisevidence,threeexperimentswerecarriedoutinvolvingadvancedlevelyoungadul

4、t,Dutch-speakinglanguagemajors.Experiment1addressesthepossibilitythattwo-wordalliterativephrasessuchasdaydreamaremorememorablethan‘norepetition’phrasessuchasphonecall.Experiment2assessesthelikelihoodthatalliterationinchunkswillbeautonomouslynoticed.Experiment3as

5、sessestheeffectontherecallofalliterativechunksofverybriefteacher-lednoticingofthephonemic/orthographicrepetitioninvolved.Collectively,theresultsoftheexperimentssuggestthatalliterationhasconsiderablemnemonicpotentialthatcouldbeexploitedtofacilitatechunk-learning,

6、butalsothatlearnersarenotverylikelytounlockthispotentialautonomously.INTRODUCTIONItiswidelybelievedthatpatternsofsoundrepetitionsuchasrhymeandalliterationareparticularlynoticeableandmemorable(Cook2000).Iftheyare,thenL2lexicalchunkswhichshowsuchrepetitionmaybeeas

7、ierforlearnerstoremember(BoersandLindstromberg2005).Aswewillsee,thecatchinessofrhymeiswellevidencedinvariouscontexts,althoughoftenwithoutobviousdirectbearingonthenoticingandrecallofchunksinL2.Thesalienceandmemorabilityofalliteration,however,havebeenmuchlessinves

8、tigated,andhereinlayonemotivebehindourdecisiontochoosethispatternofsoundrepetitionasourprimeconcern.Theothermotivehasbeenthefactthatconventionalizedalliterativephrase