Research in second language processing and parsing / / edited by Bill VanPatten, Jill Jegerski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813118503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-97690-7; 9786612976902; 90-272-8748-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 351 p
• Collana: Language acquisition and language disorders, , 0925-0123 ; ; v. 53
• Altri autori (Persone): VanPattenBill; JegerskiJill
• Disciplina: 418.0072
• Soggetti: Second language acquisition - Research; Language and languages - Study and teaching - Research
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is the first dedicated to the growing field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. The fourteen papers in this volume offer cutting-edge research using a number of different languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, English) and structures (e.g., relative clauses, wh-gaps, gender, number) to examine various issues in second language processing: first language influence, whether or not non-natives can achieve native-like processing, the roles of context and prosody, the effects of working memory, and others. The researchers include both established scholars and newer voices, all offering important insights into the factors that affect processing and parsing in a second language.