Research in second language processing and parsing /

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....

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: VanPatten, Bill, Jegerski, Jill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010
Series:Language acquisition & language disorders.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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; Part II. Relative clauses and wh-movement; Relative clause attachment preferences of Turkish L2 speakers of English; Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement; Constraints on L2 learners' processing of wh-dependencies; Part III. Gender and number; The effects of linear distance and working memory on the processing of gender agreement in Spanish.