Main Verb Versus Reduced Relative Clause Ambiguity Resolution in L2 Sentence Processing  

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Juffs, Alan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies (Full Text) vol. 48 no. 1 (Mar. 1998), page 107-147.
Fulltext: 48_01_Juffs.pdf (626.24KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LLE/48 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study investigated how adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) process sentences containing verbs that are temporarily ambiguous in interpretation between a main verb and a reduced relative clause. Seventeen Chinese, 17 Korean or Japanese, and 17 Romance learners with advanced ESL proficiency and a comparison group of 17 monolingual native speakers (NSs) of English provided word-by-word reading times for 6 sentence types. The evidence showed that they used both verb subcategorization information and post-ambiguity cues to resolve main verb/reduced relative clause ambiguity cues misled some ESL users more than others, differences that can be attributed to their first language (L1s). These results suggest that (a) like native speakers, ESL speakers are sensitive to the complex interaction of information sources when parsing strategies when processing ESL.

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