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Plausibility and Recovery from Garden Paths in Second Language Sentence Processing
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Roberts, Leah; Felser, Claudia – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
In this study, the influence of plausibility information on the real-time processing of locally ambiguous ("garden path") sentences in a nonnative language is investigated. Using self-paced reading, we examined how advanced Greek-speaking learners of English and native speaker controls read sentences containing temporary subject-object…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Nouns, Second Language Learning
Animacy Affects the Processing of Subject-Object Ambiguities in the Second Language: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading with German Second Language Learners of Dutch
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Jackson, Carrie N.; Roberts, Leah – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
The results of a self-paced reading study with German second language (L2) learners of Dutch showed that noun animacy affected the learners' on-line commitments when comprehending relative clauses in their L2. Earlier research has found that German L2 learners of Dutch do not show an on-line preference for subject-object word order in temporarily…
Descriptors: Nouns, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Word Order