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Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Outcalt, Samantha D. – Language Learning, 2005
This article presents a reading-time study of scope resolution in the interpretation of ambiguous cardinality interrogatives in English-French and in English and French native sentence processing. Participants were presented with a context, a self-paced segment-by-segment presentation of a cardinality interrogative, and a numerical answer that…
Descriptors: English, French, Native Speakers, Language Processing