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Processing Reflexives in a Second Language: The Timing of Structural and Discourse-Level Constraints
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Felser, Claudia; Cunnings, Ian – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
We report the results from two eye-movement monitoring experiments examining the processing of reflexive pronouns by proficient German-speaking learners of second language (L2) English. Our results show that the nonnative speakers initially tried to link English argument reflexives to a discourse-prominent but structurally inaccessible antecedent,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Is There Cross-Language Modulation when Bilinguals Process Number Words?
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Macizo, Pedro; Herrera, Amparo; Paolieri, Daniela; Roman, Patricia – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study explores the possibility of cross-language activation when bilinguals process number words in their first language (Italian) and their second language (German). Italian monolinguals (Experiment 1), German monolinguals (Experiment 2), and Italian/German bilinguals (Experiment 3) were required to decide the larger of two number words…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Task Analysis, Comparative Analysis
Young Children's Sensitivity to New and Given Information when Answering Predicate-Focus Questions
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Salomo, Dorothe; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
In two studies we investigated 2-year-old children's answers to predicate-focus questions depending on the preceding context. Children were presented with a successive series of short video clips showing transitive actions (e.g., frog washing duck) in which either the action (action-new) or the patient (patient-new) was the changing, and therefore…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Toddlers, Video Technology, Language Processing
Animacy Affects the Processing of Subject-Object Ambiguities in the Second Language: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading with German Second Language Learners of Dutch
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Jackson, Carrie N.; Roberts, Leah – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
The results of a self-paced reading study with German second language (L2) learners of Dutch showed that noun animacy affected the learners' on-line commitments when comprehending relative clauses in their L2. Earlier research has found that German L2 learners of Dutch do not show an on-line preference for subject-object word order in temporarily…
Descriptors: Nouns, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Word Order
The Processing and Comprehension of "Wh"-Questions among Second Language Speakers of German
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Jackson, Carrie N.; Bobb, Susan C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Using the self-paced reading paradigm, the present study examines whether highly proficient second language (L2) speakers of German (English first language) use case-marking information during the on-line comprehension of unambiguous "wh"-extractions, even when task demands do not draw explicit attention to this morphosyntactic feature in German.…
Descriptors: German, Native Speakers, Phrase Structure, Reading Strategies
Native and Non-Native Processing of English "Wh-"Questions: Parsing Strategies and Plausibility Constraints.
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Williams, John N.; Mobius, Peter; Kim, Choonkyong – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2001
Investigated processing of English wh-questions by native speakers of English and advanced Chinese, German, and Korean learners of English as a Second Language. Performance was evaluated in relation to parsing strategies and sensitivity to plausibility constraints. Results suggest native and nonnative speakers employ similar strategies in…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, English (Second Language), German