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Stepanov, Arthur; Andreetta, Sara; Stateva, Penka; Zawiszewski, Adam; Laka, Itziar – Second Language Research, 2020
This study investigates the processing of long-distance syntactic dependencies by native speakers of Slovenian (L1) who are advanced learners of Italian as a second language (L2), compared with monolingual Italian speakers. Using a self-paced reading task, we compare sensitivity of the early-acquired L2 learners to syntactic anomalies in their L2…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Italian, Slavic Languages
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Wei, Hang; Boland, Julie E.; Brennan, Jonathan; Yuan, Fang; Wang, Min; Zhang, Chi – Second Language Research, 2018
Prior work has shown intriguing differences between first language (L1) and second language (L2) comprehension priming of relative clauses. We investigated English reduced relative clause priming in Chinese adult learners of English. Participants of different education levels read sentences in a self-paced, moving window paradigm. Critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lexicology, Priming, Second Language Learning
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Lago, Sol; Stutter Garcia, Anna; Felser, Claudia – Second Language Research, 2019
Previous studies have shown that multilingual speakers are influenced by their native (L1) and non-native (L2) grammars when learning a new language. But, so far, these studies have mostly used untimed metalinguistic tasks. Here we examine whether multilinguals' prior grammars also affect their sensitivity to morphosyntactic constraints during…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Grammar, Native Language
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Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Vasic, Nada; Marinis, Theodoros; Blom, Elma – Second Language Research, 2015
The present article examines production and on-line processing of definite articles in Turkish-speaking sequential bilingual children acquiring English and Dutch as second languages (L2) in the UK and in the Netherlands, respectively. Thirty-nine 6-8-year-old L2 children and 48 monolingual (L1) age-matched children participated in two separate…
Descriptors: Language Research, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
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Jegerski, Jill – Second Language Research, 2015
This article reports a study that sought to determine whether non-native sentence comprehension can show sensitivity to two different types of Spanish case marking. Sensitivity to case violations was generally more robust with indirect objects in ditransitive constructions than with differential object marking of animate direct objects, even among…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Spanish, Language Processing