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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"L2 Processing"”.
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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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L1 and L2 Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese Speakers: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading Times and Event-Related Potentials
Language processing is a complex task requiring our brain to rapidly integrate various linguistic 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 …
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The influence of proficiency and age of acquisition on second language processing: An fMRI study of Mandarin-English bilinguals
… the neural correlates of second language (L2) processing has usually studied age of acquisition (AoA) and proficiency separately. Presently, we examined both in parallel, treated as continuous variables. We used fMRI to study neural activity for L2 processing in adult native Mandarin …
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Reading between the lines: psycholinguistic indices of prediction and formulaicity in language comprehension
A comprehensive model of language processing must account for not only how people process literal language, but also how nonliteral language is processed. Further, of theoretical interest to psycholinguists is the role that prediction plays in language processing, namely the conditions under which …
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On L2 Grammar and Processing: The Case of Oblique Relative Clauses and the Null-Prep Phenomenon
This study contributes to the field of SLA and L2 processing in various ways. First, it demonstrates that the grammatical representations may be dissociated from grammatical processing in the sense that L2 learners, unlike native speakers, can present unexpected asymmetries such as a convergent …
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Second language processing in reading and translation
… of this dissertation is to investigate the processing mechanisms of non-native English speakers at both the sentence level and the morphological level, addressing the issue of whether adult second language (L2) learners qualitatively differ from native speakers in processing linguistic …
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The role of the native language in second-language syntactic processing
… language (L1) have an influence on syntactic processing in a second language (L2). While the Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney, 1982, 1987, 1989, MacWhinney, 1997) predicts that syntactic properties of the L1 can have an influence on L2 processing, the Shallow-Structure Account (Clahsen & …
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L2 Representations and Processing of Chinese Nominal Phrases by Speakers of Classifier and Non-Classifier Languages
A central question in second language (L2) acquisition is: What is easy and what is hard in L2 acquisition (DeKeyser, 2005)? Various answers and accounts have been provided, including the Interface Hypothesis (IH; Sorace, 2011), the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (FRH; Lardiere, 2009), and the …
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THE GROUNDING OF L1 AND L2 REPRESENTATIONS IN PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES
… perceptual experiences during second language (L2) processing as proposed by the grounded cognition hypothesis (Barsalou, 1999). A secondary aim was to provide evidence for the embodied grounding in a non-European language, L1 Japanese. The experiments, which all utilized reaction time methods, …
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Processing of canonical and scrambled word orders in native and non-native Korean
… present study aims to investigate the nature of processing mechanisms in adult first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence processing, specifically, whether adult L2 learners are capable of developing native-like sentence processing strategies. By testing a head-final language (Korean) …
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On L2 grammar and processing: the case of oblique relative clauses and the Null-Prep phenomenon
… the acquisition of oblique relative clauses in L2 Spanish by English and Moroccan Arabic speakers in order to understand the role of previous linguistic knowledge and its interaction with Universal Grammar on the one hand, and the relationship between grammatical knowledge and its use in …
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Why wait? Psycholinguistic investigations of the roles of learning condition and gender stability in L2 gender-based anticipation
… to anticipate upcoming nouns in sentences, L2 learners often show a reduced or absent ability to use gender in this manner (Grüter, Lew-Williams, & Fernald, 2012; Hopp, 2013, 2016). The Lexical Gender Learning Hypothesis (LGLH) proposes a chain of causality to account for this finding: 1) …
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The role of memory processes and quality of lexical representations in native and non-native reading comprehension
… during first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence reading. Although two memory-based accounts in sentence processing research, the capacity-based model (Just & Carpenter, 1992; King & Just, 1991) and the cue-based retrieval model (McElree & Vasishth, 2005; McElree, Vasishth, & Van …
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Predictors of Second Language Reading Span
… obvious differences between a second language (L2) and a native language (L1). When processing an L2, a person is slower and prone to more errors than when processing an L1. However, the reasons for these differences are not clearly understood. A possible explanation is a limitation in available …
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A sensitive period for second language acquismon: A reaction-time study of grammaticality juooments of English by Korean-English bilinguals
… acquisition, particularly in terms of sentence-processing speed (automaticity), as evidenced by uniformly faster performance by early-learner L2 groups than by late-learner L2 groups. However, no definite evidence was found for such age effects regarding accuracy. Although early-learner L2 …
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Is cue-based memory retrieval 'good-enough'?: Agreement, comprehension, and implicit prosody in native and bilingual speakers of English
… reading, examining their influence on agreement processing and comprehension in native English (L1) and Spanish-English bilingual (L2) speakers. I consolidate research from three distinct areas of inquiry'cognitive processing models, development of reading fluency, and L1/L2 processing …
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Interpretation and processing of overt pronouns in Korean, English and L2-acquisition
… investigates pronoun interpretation and processing of two languages (Korean and English), as well as in the second language (L2) acquisition of English by Korean speakers, with a focus on possible first language (L1) transfer. Using offline tasks and eye-tracking measures, the …
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Grammatical constraints in second language sentence processing
A central issue in L2 research concerns the nature of grammatical representations that late L2 learners come to develop in the L2. Previous work suggests that L2 learners sometimes underuse morpho-syntactic information during online processing of L2 sentences, leading to an ongoing debate about how …
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The use of focus markers in second language word processing
… speaking and understanding a second language (L2) a highly complex challenge. Skills and competencies in in both linguistic and metalinguistic areas emerge as parts of a multi-faceted, flexible concept underlying bilingual/multilingual communication. On the linguistic level, a combination of an …
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Syntactic and Referential Ambiguity Resolution Under Cue Competition in Silent Reading: Effects of Implicit Prosodic Cues, L1-L2 and Individual Differences
… two decades, more recent accounts of sentence processing argue that comprehenders do not just incrementally integrate bottom-up input; they use various types of information as predictive cues to pre-activate structural analyses. Within this growing body of research, it has become apparent that …
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