Bilingual deaf readers’ use of semantic and syntactic cues in the processing of English relative clauses*
| Autor: | Matthew T. Carlson, Paola E. Dussias, Pilar Piñar, Jill P. Morford |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Linguistics and Language
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Object (grammar) English relative clauses 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Sentence processing Linguistics Article Education Comprehension 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Reading (process) Subject (grammar) otorhinolaryngologic diseases 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Psychology Animacy Relative clause media_common |
| Popis: | Eye fixation measures were used to examine English relative clause processing by adult ASL–English bilingual deaf readers. Participants processed subject relative clauses faster than object relative clauses, but expected animacy cues eliminated processing difficulty in object relative clauses. This brings into question previous claims that deaf readers’ sentence processing strategies are qualitatively different from those of hearing English native speakers. Measures of English comprehension predicted reading speed, but not differences in syntactic processing. However, a trend for ASL self-ratings to predict the ability to handle syntactic complexity approached significance. Results suggest a need to explore how objective ASL proficiency measures might provide insights into deaf readers’ ability to exploit syntactic cues in English. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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