Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Applied Psycholinguistics
First Page
419
Last Page
456
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716411000427
Abstract
This study examines the reading patterns of native speakers (NSs) and high-level (Chinese) nonnative speakers (NNSs) on three English sentence types involving temporarily ambiguous structural configurations. The reading patterns on each sentence type indicate that both NSs and NNSs were biased toward specific structural interpretations. These results are interpreted as evidence that both first-language and second-language (L2) sentence comprehension is guided (at least in part) by structure-based parsing strategies and, thus as counterevidence to the claim that NNSs are largely limited to rudimentary (or “shallow”) syntactic computation during online L2 sentence processing.
Disciplines
Linguistics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Language
English
License
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Recommended Citation
Witzel, Naoko; Witzel, Jeffrey; and Nicol, Janet, "Deeper than shallow: Evidence for structure-based parsing biases in second-language sentence processing" (2012). Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations. 45.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/linguistics_tesol_facpubs/45