Referential context effects in L2 ambiguity resolution: Evidence from self-paced reading
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Referential Context Effects in L2 Ambiguity Resolution: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading
This study investigates the degree to which referential context information influences structural ambiguity resolution preferences in non-native sentence comprehension, using both an off-line questionnaire and an on-line self-paced reading task. The critical target sentences contained prepositional phrases (PPs) modifying either the verb phrase (VP) or the preceding noun phrase (NP), as in Bill...
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عنوان ژورنال: Lingua
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0024-3841
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.08.003