| Autor: |
Tamura, Yu, Fukuta, Junya, Nishimura, Yoshito, Kato, Daiki |
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IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching; Nov2023, Vol. 61 Issue 4, p1577-1606, 30p |
| Abstrakt: |
Although native speakers (NSs) of English make plural agreement in preverbal-subject sentences (e.g., A pen and eraser *is/are...), previous studies have demonstrated that they prefer singular – not plural – agreement between verbs and conjoined noun phrases (NPs) in expletive there constructions (e.g., there is/are a pen and an eraser...), showing efficiency-driven processing prioritization of agreement between nearest constituents. This paper assesses whether Japanese L2 learners of English (JLE) show this tendency. The results of two self-paced reading experiments together indicated that even though efficiency-driven processing was available to L2 learners, their use was unstable due to the repeated exposure to there are NPpl- and NPpl-type sentences during the task. It seems possible that repeated exposure triggered learners' knowledge that conjoined NPs are always plural. Hence, it could conceivably be hypothesized that a learner's specific knowledge intervenes the efficiency-driven processing strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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