PROCESSING OF THE REDUCED RELATIVE CLAUSE VERSUS MAIN VERB AMBIGUITY IN L2 LEARNERS AT DIFFERENT PROFICIENCY LEVELS

Autor:	Dany Adone, Anne Rah
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Parsing Grammar First language media_common.quotation_subject Verb Language acquisition computer.software_genre Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics Education German Reduced relative clause Task analysis language Psychology computer media_common
Zdroj:	Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 32:79-109
ISSN:	1470-1545 0272-2631
DOI:	10.1017/s027226310999026x
Popis:	This article presents new evidence from offline and online processing of garden-path sentences that are ambiguous between reduced relative clause resolution and main verb resolution. The participants of this study are intermediate and advanced German learners of English who have learned the language in a nonimmersed context. The results show that for second language (L2) learners, there is a dissociation between parsing mechanisms and grammatical knowledge: The learners successfully process the structures in question offline, but the online self-paced reading task shows different patterns for the L2 learners and the native-speaker control group. The results are discussed with regard to shallow processing in L2 learners (Clahsen & Felser, 2006). Because the structures in question differ in English and German, first language (L1) influence is also discussed as an explanation for the findings. The comparison of the three participant groups’ results points to a gradual rather than a fundamental difference between L1 and L2 processing.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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