Naoko Witzel
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/23885
2024-03-29T04:46:32ZDeeper than shallow: Evidence for structure-based parsing biases in second-language sentence processing
http://hdl.handle.net/10106/24009
Deeper than shallow: Evidence for structure-based parsing biases in second-language sentence processing
Witzel, Naoko; Witzel, Jeffrey; Nicol, Janet
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.
2012-01-01T00:00:00Z