parsing preferences in structurally ambiguous relative clauses: l1 vs. l2

Relative Clause Ambiguity Resolution in L1 and L2: Are Processing Strategies Transferred?

This study aims at investigating whether Persian native speakers highly advanced in English as a second language (L2ers) can switch to optimal processing strategies in the languages they know and whether working memory capacity (WMC) plays a role in this respect. To this end, using a self-paced reading task, we examined the processing strategies 62 Persian speaking proficient L2ers used to read...

The comprehension of Relative Clauses within Movement-based hypothesis in L1 and L2: the Case of Tati and English

Event-related potentials elicited during parsing of ambiguous relative clauses in Spanish.

Previous behavioural studies in Spanish have found a significant preference for attaching relative clauses preceded by a complex NP (N1 of N2 RC) to the first noun phrase. In the present study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to help identify the nature of these processes by directly comparing ERPs to temporary ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses that were finally consistent...

Parsing Strategies in L1 and L2 Sentence Processing:

To contribute to a better understanding of L2 sentence processing, the present study examines how second language (L2) learners parse temporary ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses. Results are reported from both off-line and on-line experiments with three groups of advanced learners of Greek, with Spanish, German or Russian as native language (L1), as well as results from correspond...

Processing Preference Toward Object-Extracted Relative Clauses in Mandarin Chinese by L1 and L2 Speakers: An Eye-Tracking Study

The current study employed an eye-movement technique with an attempt to explore the reading patterns for the two types of Chinese relative clauses, subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs) and object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs), by native speakers (L1), and Japanese learners (L2) of Chinese. The data were analyzed in terms of gaze duration, regression path duration, and regression rate o...

Learning Structurally Indeterminate Clauses

This paper describes a new kind of language bias, S-structural indeterminate clauses, which takes into account the meaning of predicates that play a key role in the complexity of learning in structural domains. Structurally indeterminate clauses capture an important background knowledge in structural domains such as medicine, chemistry or computational linguistics: the specificity of the compon...