Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing

Name: Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing
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Erschienen am 15. Dezember 2010

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Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Part I. Introduction
Second language processing and parsing
1. First, some terminology
2. Two perspectives on processing and parsing
3. The role of the L1
4. Native-likeness in processing
5. This volume
References
Part II. Relative clauses and wh-movement
Relative clause attachment preferences of Turkish L2 speakers of English
1. Relative clause attachment ambiguity
2. Turkish sentence structure and complex genitive NPs modified by RCs
3. Relative clause ambiguity resolution in the L2
4. The present study
4.1 Experiment 1: Turkish
4.2 Experiment 2: English
4.3 Summary of results
5. Discussion
5.1 L1 findings
5.2 L2 findings
6. Conclusion
Author note
References
Appendix A. Experimental items in Turkish online task
Appendix B. Experimental items in Turkish offline task
Appendix C. Experimental items in English online task
Appendix D. Experimental items in the English offline task
Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement
1. Background
1.1 Wh- facts in English and Najdi Arabic
1.2 Processing Wh-dependencies: Stowe (1986)
2. The present study
2.1 Participants
2.2 Materials
2.3 Procedure
3. Results
3.1 Data analysis
3.2 Reading times for Experiment 1: Grammatical extraction
3.3 Reading times for Experiment 2: Wh-island
3.4 Summary of results: Experiments 1 and 2
4. Discussion
References
Appendix A
experimental stimuli
Experiment 2
Appendix B
Constraints on L2 learners' processing of wh-dependencies
1. Island constraints in processing
2. Method
2.1 Participants
2.2 Materials
2.3 Procedure
2.4 Data analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Author note
References
Appendix
Part III. Gender and number
The effects of linear distance and working memory on the processing of gender agreement in Spanish
1. Background
1.1 Gender agreement in Spanish
1.2 Gender agreement processing
2. The present study
2.1 Participants
2.2 Materials
2.3 Apparatus and procedure
2.4 Data analysis
3. Results
3.1 Comprehension question performance
3.2 Reading times from eye-tracking
3.3 Summary of results from reading times
3.4 Reading span analysis
4. Discussion
4.1 Native Spanish speakers
4.2 Advanced learners
4.3 Shallow processing
5. Conclusion
Author note
References
Appendix
Feature assembly in early stages of L2 acquisition
1. The nature of the feature calculus in L2 acquisition
2. Features, auxiliaries, and past participles
2.1 Auxiliaries
2.2 Past participles
3. Parsing as a learning mechanism
4. The present study
4.1 Participants
4.2 Materials and procedure
5. Results
5.1 Acceptance rates
5.2 Reading times
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
Author note
References
Appendix
Part IV. Subjects and objects
Second language processing in Japanese scrambled sentences
1. Background
1.1 Processing in Japanese
1.2 L2 processing
2. The present study
2.1 Participants
2.2 Materials
2.3 Procedure
3. Results
4. Discussion and conclusion
Authors' note
References
Second language gap processing of Japanese scrambling under a simpler syntax account
1. Recent L2 gap processing studies
2. Processing of Japanese scrambling under simpler syntax
3. The present study
3.1 Participants
3.2 Materials
3.3 Procedure
4. Results
4.1 Processing the pre-verbal region in short scrambling
4.2 Processing the pre-verbal region in long scrambling
4.3 Processing the verb region in the three conditions
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Author note
References
Appendix
A complete list of the experimental sentences
The processing of subject-object ambiguities by English and Dutch L2 learners of German
1. L2 morphosyntactic processing
2. The present study
2.1 Participants
2.2 Materials
2.3 Procedure
3. Results
3.1 Comprehension accuracy
3.2 Reading times
4. Discussion and conclusion
4.1 A subject-first preference in on-line processing
4.2 Integrating nominal arguments during on-line processing
Author note
References
Appendix
Connections Between Processing, Production and Placement
1. Background
1.1 Processing
1.2 Production and Placement
2. The Present Study
2.1 The Present Study: Participants
Part 1 Processing
Part 2 Production
3. Results
Discussion and Conclusion
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Anchor 103
Appendix D
Part V. Phonology and lexicon
The exploitation of fine phonetic detail in the processing of L2 French
1. The processing of L2 French
2. The present study
2.1 Participants
2.2 Materials
2.2 Procedure: Experiment 1 (Ax discrimination task)
2.3 Results: Experiment 1
2.4 Discussion: Experiment 1
2.5 Procedure: Experiment 2 (Forced-choice identification task)
2.6 Results: Experiment 2
2.7 Discussion: Experiment 2
3. L2 processing and nativelike performance
4. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Translation Ambiguity
1. Sources of Within-Language Ambiguity
2. Manifestation of Within-Language Ambiguity in Cross-Language Performance
3. The Consequences of Translation Ambiguity
3.1 Language Learning
3.2 Language Processing
Authors' Note
References
Part VI. Prosody and context
Reading aloud in two languages
1. Motivation
1.1 Attaching relative clauses in two languages
1.2 Prosody and the resolution of the relative clause attachment ambiguity
1.3 Prosody versus fluency
2. The present study
2.1 Participants
2.2 Elicitation protocol
2.3 Materials
2.4 Acoustic Analysis
2.4 Results
3. Summary and discussion
Author note
References
Appendix: Language History Questionnaire
Near-nativelike processing of contrastive focus in L2 French
1. French focus structure
2. ERP effects
3. The present study
3.1 Participants
3.2 Procedure
3.3 EEG recording and analysis
4. Results
4.1 ERP
4.2 Behavioral
5. Discussion
5.1 Native speakers
5.2 L2 learners
5.3 Informational focus processing
6. Conclusion
Author note
References
Appendix
Items tested
Author index
Subject index
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