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Roberts, Leah; Liszka, Sarah Ann – Second Language Research, 2021
The results of a self-paced reading study with advanced German, Dutch and French second language (L2) learners of English showed that their online comprehension of early closure (EC) sentences which are initially misanalysed by native English speakers (e.g. "While John hunted the frightened rabbit escaped") was affected by whether or…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Duffield, Nigel; Matsuo, Ayumi; Roberts, Leah – Second Language Research, 2007
This article presents a new set of experiments using the "sentence-matching paradigm" (Forster, 1979; Freedman and Forster, 1985; see also Bley-Vroman and Masterson, 1989), investigating native speakers' and second language (L2) learners' knowledge of constraints on clitic placement in French. Our purpose is three-fold: (1) to shed more light on…
Descriptors: Models, Native Speakers, Grammar, Second Language Learning