二语书写中的运动——语义耦合效应

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Psychological Research

2025, Vol. 18

Issue (3): 213-220 DOI: 10.19988/j.cnki.issn.2095-1159.2025.03.003

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The motor-semantics coupling effect in second language writing

BAI Yating^1,2, QIN Nan³, HE Wenguang¹

1 School of Psychology, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165;
2 Department of Psychology, Renmin University, Beijing 100872;
3 Mental Health Education Center, Shandong Agricultural University Taian 271018

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Abstract The speed of our hand movements can be affected by concurrent processing of manual action verbs. While this phenomenon is well established for native languages （L1）, it remains underexplored in foreign language （L2）. In this paper, we used “action semantics in typing” paradigm, which allowed to time keystroke operations during word typing. 79 Chinese-English bilinguals participated in the study and the results showed that：（1） L1 results showed that the effect of stimulus type was not significant in the FLL stage, but there was an interference effect in the WWL stage, which supported the hypothesis of embodied language cognition effect; （2） L2 results showed that in the FLL and WWL stages, the overall performance of verbs writing was primed, but the writing of manual action verbs （MaVs） were interfered compared with non-manual action verbs （nMaVs）, which supported the hypothesis of HANDLE model; （3） Language proficiency affected writing planning and writing execution, but did not affect the motor-semantics coupling effect.

Key words： writing processes motor-semantics coupling bilingualism embodied cognition

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BAI Yating,QIN Nan,HE Wenguang. The motor-semantics coupling effect in second language writing[J]. Psychological Research, 2025, 18(3): 213-220.

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