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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

VanPatten, Bill.

Jegerski, Jill.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 53.

Language acquisition and language disorders, 0925-0123 ; v. 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition--Research.

Second language acquisition.

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Research.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

vi, 351 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

Appendix A

experimental stimuli

Experiment 2

Appendix B

Constraints on L2 learners' processing of wh-dependencies

1. Island constraints in processing

2. Method

2.4 Data analysis

4. Discussion.

5. Conclusion

Appendix

Part III. Gender and number

The effects of linear distance and working memory on the processing of gender agreement in Spanish

1.1 Gender agreement in Spanish

1.2 Gender agreement processing

2.3 Apparatus and procedure

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

4.1 Native Spanish speakers

4.2 Advanced learners

4.3 Shallow processing

5. Conclusion

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

4.1 Participants

4.2 Materials and procedure

5. Results

5.1 Acceptance rates

5.2 Reading times

6. Discussion

7. Conclusion

Part IV. Subjects and objects

Second language processing in Japanese scrambled sentences

1.1 Processing in Japanese

1.2 L2 processing

4. Discussion and conclusion

Authors' note

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

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

3.1 Comprehension accuracy

3.2 Reading times

4.1 A subject-first preference in on-line processing

4.2 Integrating nominal arguments during on-line processing

Connections Between Processing, Production and Placement

1.1 Processing

1.2 Production and Placement

2. The Present Study

2.1 The Present Study: Participants

Part 1 Processing

Part 2 Production

Discussion and Conclusion

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

2.2 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

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

2.2 Elicitation protocol

2.3 Materials

2.4 Acoustic Analysis

2.4 Results

3. Summary and discussion

Appendix: Language History Questionnaire

Near-nativelike processing of contrastive focus in L2 French

1. French focus structure

2. ERP effects

3.2 Procedure

3.3 EEG recording and analysis

4.1 ERP

4.2 Behavioral

5.1 Native speakers

5.2 L2 learners

5.3 Informational focus processing

Items tested

Author index

Subject index

The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612976902

9781282976900

1282976907

9789027287489

9027287481

OCLC:

697613368