Syntactic and Prosodic Computations in the Resolution of Relative Clause Attachment Ambiguity by English-French Learners  

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent ; Donaldson, Bryan ; Edmonds, Amanda C. ; Fultz, Audrey Liljestrand ; Petrush, Rebecca A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Studies in Second Language Acquisition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST Th.2001-) vol. 30 no. 4 (Dec. 2008), page 453-480 .
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This study investigates the manner in which syntax, prosody, and context interact when second- and fourth-semester college-level English-French learners process relative clause (RC) attachment to either the first noun phrase (NP1) or the second noun phrase (NP2) in complex nominal expressions such as /e secretaire du psycho/ague qui se promene (au centre ville) "the secretary of the psychologist who takes a walk (downtown)." Learners' interpretations were affected by the length of the RC, specifically its phonological weight. Effects of intonation contour were found only in a subset of learners. In a response time (RT) experiment that manipulated contexts, fourth-semester learners showed a final bias for NP1 attachment in interpretation but an initial RT bias for NP2 attachment. Second-semester learners also produced a NP2 attachment bias in RTs, but no asymmetry in interpretation was found. We argue that the processing of RC attachment by English-French learners requires a task-specific algorithm that implicates autonomous syntactic and prosodic computations and specific interactions among them.

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