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Does the Shallow Structures Proposal Account for Qualitative Differences in First and Second Language Processing?
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Sabourin, Laura – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
In their Keynote Article, Clahsen and Felser (CF) provide a detailed summary and comparison of grammatical processing in adult first language (L1) speakers, child L1 speakers, and second language (L2) speakers. CF conclude that child and adult L1 processing makes use of a continuous parsing mechanism, and that any differences found in processing…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Native Language, Second Languages, Children