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Peer reviewedHoover, Michael L.; Dwivedi, Veena D. – Language Learning, 1998
Recent advances in cross-language psycholinguistics provide reading researchers with both the models and the tools needed to investigate the syntactic processing of second-language (L2) readers. In this study, 48 first-language and 48 highly fluent L2 French readers read sentences containing constructions that do not exist in English, pre-verbal…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
Peer reviewedWardhaugh, Ronald – Language Learning, 1971
Research funded by a contract from the U.S. Office of Education to Rutgers University. (DS)
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Language Experience Approach, Language Research, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedYing, H. G. – Language Learning, 1996
Investigates adult second language learners' processing of English syntactically ambiguous sentences in which a prepositional phrase is interpreted as either a noun phrase or verb phrase attachment. Results reveal lexical, syntactic, prosodic, and contextual constraints on processing ambiguous sentences. (87 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ambiguity, Context Clues, English (Second Language)
