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| Title: | Deeper than shallow: Evidence for structure-based parsing biases in second-language sentence processing |
| Author: | Jeffrey Witzel |
| Institution: | University of Arizona |
| Author: | Naoko Witzel |
| Institution: | University of Arizona |
| Author: | Janet Nicol |
| Institution: | University of Arizona |
| Linguistic Field: | Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics |
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Chinese, Mandarin
English |
| Abstract: | This study examines the reading patterns of native speakers (NSs) and high-level (Chinese) nonnative speakers (NNSs) on three English sentence types involving temporarily ambiguous structural configurations. The reading patterns on each sentence type indicate that both NSs and NNSs were biased toward specific structural interpretations. These results are interpreted as evidence that both first-language and second-language (L2) sentence comprehension is guided (at least in part) by structure-based parsing strategies and, thus as counterevidence to the claim that NNSs are largely limited to rudimentary (or “shallow”) syntactic computation during online L2 sentence processing. |
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This article appears in Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 33, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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