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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"L1 and L2"”.
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Coreference processing in L1 and L2
… resolve coreference relations between an anaphor and its antecedent. Theoretical and empirical evidence has suggested that discourse entities differ in their relative accessibility, and that this guides the choice of anaphors and identification of their referent (e.g., Ariel, 1990; Walker, Joshi, …
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Self-Repair in L1 and L2 Production
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_233334955.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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L1 and L2 processing of Chinese VO compounds
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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THE GROUNDING OF L1 AND L2 REPRESENTATIONS IN PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES
… second language acquisition (SLA) theories and first language (L1) embodiment theories. The primary aim of this series of studies was to provide evidence for the grounding of semantic representation in perceptual experiences during second language (L2) processing as proposed by the grounded …
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Influence of Reading Proficiency on Text Representation in L1 and L2
… while reading. According to Van Dijk and Kintsch (1983), these are the surface level, textbase level, and situation model level. The current project aimed to explore the effects of reading proficiency on level of text representation in L1 and L2 reading from a developmental view. Study …
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Word searches in L1 and L2 Italian conversation: re-establishing intersubjectivity
… is restored after a repair initiation in native and non-native speakers in Italian conversations. The main objective of the present study is to fill a gap in previous research analyzing a particular instance of repair, word search, which focuses on lexical items, both in native (NSs) and …
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Using transposed-letter effects to investigate morphological processing in L1 and L2
Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2013-08-27T10:00:20Z
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Syntactic focus structure processing : behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from L1 and L2 French
… two research questions: What do the acquisition and processing of information structure tell us about the acquisition and processing of language in general, and what do the acquisition and processing of information structure tell us about the nature of information structure as a syntactic and …
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Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context
… overt 3rd person pronouns by native (N=21) and advanced L1-English/L2-Japanese (N=20) speakers, using interpretation, reaction-time, and eye-tracking data. Previous studies have investigated L1 and L2 pronoun interpretation in null-subject languages like Spanish, Italian, and Greek, finding …
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Culture, Cognition, and Context: Situated Literacy Practices of L1 and L2 Writing Programs
… of activity theory (e.g., Vygotsky, Engestrom) and practice theory (e.g., Bourdieu, Lave) that emphasize the importance of understanding literate activity in relation to situated sociocultural contexts in which literacy events occur, my dissertation investigates how situated disciplinary …
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The processing of two types of Chinese idioms by L1 and L2 speakers
… originated from the pre-Qin dynasty (~ 221 A.D.) and are the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Chinese civilization. However, only 2.47% of the still-in-use idioms have a regular structure that follows the modern language rules (Wang & Wang, 2010). How are the irregular forms processed and …
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EXPLORING PERCEIVED COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN UPPER-LEVEL L1 AND L2 INTERACTIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
… context. I specifically look at how upper-level L2 students (second language learners) identify their needs and negotiate miscommunications and preconceived notions of L2 learners in various communicative events in the process of developing communicative competence (Canale & Swain, 1980; Hymes, …
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Speaking Japanese: L1 and L2 grammatical encoding of case particles and adjectives/adjectival nouns
… theories of sentence production to the study of L2 acquisition. To achieve this goal, two steps were taken: first, some of the specifics of the grammatical encoding processes that occur during L1 Japanese sentence production were investigated; second, L2 Japanese learners' sentence production …
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English Proficiency of Icelandic Adolescents: A Comparative Study of Vocabulary Use and Syntactic Complexity in L1 and L2 Speakers
As the English language spreads through academia and popular culture, Icelanders are acquiring English from a young age, raising the question of whether this has become more of a second than a foreign language. However, it remains unclear just how large a presence English has in their lives and how …
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Text-Picture Integration during Inferential Processing by L1 and L2 English and Chinese Speakers: Individual Differences and Script Effects
… that inference processing is critical to understanding verbal narratives. In recent years, empirical studies have offered evidence that inference generation is also crucial to visual narrative comprehension. Given the similarities between verbal and visual narratives, it is reasonable to argue …
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L1 and L2 Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese Speakers: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading Times and Event-Related Potentials
… information from strings of unfolding words and quickly build comprehension. While previous studies have shown that native speakers (L1) employ both incremental and predictive processing in real time (e.g., Clifton & Frazier, 1989; Altmann & Kamide, 1999), debates persist regarding how second …
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Quantifying syntactic priming in oral production : a corpus-based investigation into dyadic interaction of L1-L1 and L2-L2 speakers of English
… or their interlocutors in native language (L1) and second language (L2) conversations. This phenomenon is largely attributed to priming, whereby exposure to a given language form, i.e. prime, facilitates its processing or that of a related form in a subsequent language production, i.e. …
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The Availability of Semantic and Syntactic Information and Their Use As A Structural Predictor In the Real-Time Processing of L1 and L2 Korean
… processing of Korean both by native speakers and learners in terms of the availability and the effectiveness of different types of information in the structural prediction. Built on the crosslinguistically contrastive findings between Japanese in Yoshida (2006) and Chinese in Hsu (2007), the …
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Examining the Comprehension Strategies of Chinese and English Readers: A Study of Bilingual and Monolingual First, Second and Third Grade Elementary School Students
… associated with the treatment of strategies in L1 and L2 literature, such as the classification of comprehension strategies and the skill-strategy distinction. In light of these findings, pedagogical, methodological and theoretical implications for L1 and L2 reading are discussed.
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