L1 word order and sensitivity to verb bias in L2 processing

EK Lee, DHY Lu, SM Garnsey - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Using a self-paced reading task, this study examines whether second language (L2)
learners are flexible enough to learn L2 parsing strategies that are not useful in their first …

Effects of reading speed on second-language sentence processing

E Kaan, JC Ballantyne, F Wijnen - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2015 - cambridge.org
To test the effects of reading speed on second-language (L2) sentence processing and the
potential influence of conflicting native language word order, we compared advanced L2 …

Main verb versus reduced relative clause ambiguity resolution in L2 sentence processing

A Juffs - Language Learning, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated how adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) process
sentences containing verbs that are temporarily ambiguous in interpretation between a main …

Native and non-native (L1-Mandarin) speakers of English differ in online use of verb-based cues about sentence structure

Z Qian, EK Lee, DHY Lu, SM Garnsey - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2019 - cambridge.org
This study examined whether L1-Mandarin learners of L2-English use verb bias and
complementizer cues to process temporarily ambiguous English sentences the same way …

Task sensitivity in L2 English speakers' syntactic processing: Evidence for good-enough processing in self-paced reading

M Tan, A Foltz - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Native (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence processing can sometimes be shallow. A
Good-Enough approach suggests that speakers may engage in shallow processing if the …

Prediction and integration in native and second-language processing of elliptical structures

E Kaan, J Kirkham, F Wijnen - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2016 - cambridge.org
According to recent views of L2-sentence processing, L2-speakers do not predict upcoming
information to the same extent as do native speakers. To investigate L2-speakers' predictive …

The timing of lexical and syntactic processes in second language sentence comprehension

H Hopp - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2016 - cambridge.org
This paper investigates how lexical processing difficulty affects second language (L2)
syntactic processing. In a self-paced reading experiment with 36 monolingual and 62 first …

Proficiency level and the interaction of lexical and morphosyntactic information during L2 sentence processing

C Jackson - Language Learning, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Using a self‐paced reading task, the present study explores how second language (L2)
German speakers at different proficiency levels use case‐marking information when …

Predictive sentence processing in L2 and L1: What is different?

E Kaan - Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2014 - jbe-platform.com
There is ample evidence that native speakers anticipate upcoming information at various
levels during sentence comprehension. In contrast, some studies on late second-language …

Transfer effects in bilingual sentence processing

K Barto-Sisamout, J Nicol… - Journal of Second …, 2009 - journals.uair.arizona.edu
This study investigates transfer effects in second language (L2) sentence processing.
Although the evidence for such effects is mixed, recent studies have found that during online …