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Bricks or Mortar: Which Parts of the Input Does a Second Language Listener Rely on?
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Field, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
There is considerable evidence from psycholinguistics that first language listeners handle function words differently from content words. This makes intuitive sense because content words require the listener to access a lexical meaning representation whereas function words do not. A separate channel of processing for functors would enable them to…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Language Processing