Missing verbal inflections as a representational problem

VanPatten, Bill; Keating, Gregory D.; Leeser, Michael J.

doi:10.1075/lab.2.2.01pat

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“…Shibuya and Wakabayashi (2008) found longer RTs in position 0 (critical verb) in grammatical sentences than in ungrammatical sentences. Bannai (2011) andVanPatten et al (2012) found similar results in their research. The finding in both our Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 that RTs in position 1 were longer in grammatical sentences than in ungrammatical sentences is therefore not surprising.…”

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Cross-linguistic differences affect late Chinese-English learners on-line processing of English tense and aspect

Yao

Chen

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims: The present study aimed to explore how varied cross-linguistic differences affect late Chinese-English learners' on-line processing of tense and aspect in English. Methodology: We used the self-paced reading task (Experiment 1) and the eye-tracking technique (Experiment 2) to test the above question. Data and analysis: Reading times in Experiment 1 and first-fixation duration, and gaze time in Experiment 2 in four interested positions were analysed in R by ANOVAs and t-tests. Findings: Both high-and low-proficiency participants showed their sensitivity to the violation of progressive, which is nearly congruent between English and Chinese. Only high-proficiency participants were sensitive to the violation of past tense, which is similar but not congruent between Chinese and English. With regard to present third person singular, which is incongruent between Chinese and English, high-proficiency participants also showed their sensitivity to its violation; however, this sensitivity is only detected by the eye-tracking method (Experiment 2). These results suggested that cross-linguistic differences affect late second language learners' online processing of English tense and aspect. Originality: To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first one exploring varied crosslinguistic differences' influence on late Chinese-English learners' on-line processing of tense and aspect in English. Significance: Our results provide new evidence to support the Performance Deficit Account.

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Cross-linguistic differences affect late Chinese-English learners on-line processing of English tense and aspect

Yao

Chen

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…The native speaker group exceeded 90% accuracy and were three times faster in responding to sentences than the learners, who performed at near chance, or even below, in detecting errors in the ungrammatical items. The large difference between the performance of native speakers and learners, including those who have had early immersive exposure, has been documented in previous work, as well (Bergström et al, 2016;Kersten, 2010), and poor sensitivity to nonnative morpho-syntactic errors in online sentence processing has also been reported (Chen et al, 2007;Jiang, 2004Jiang, , 2007Jiang et al, 2011;VanPatten et al, 2012). Considering the profiles of participants in the present study, the results illustrate how even for learners with very high global L2 proficiency and even for those who have had additional early immersive exposure, it is difficult to attain high sensitivity to L2 morpho-syntactic features in online processing.…”

Section: Sensitivity To L2 Morpho-syntactic Errors In Online Sentencesupporting

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Age of Onset, Type of Exposure, and Ultimate Attainment of L2 Morpho-Syntactic Sensitivity

Lee

2019

Stud Second Lang Acquis

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The present study examined whether early immersive L2 exposure in a foreign language learning context can yield long-term advantages in L2 morpho-syntactic sensitivity. Participants were 40 Korean university students with high English proficiency, who had either attended an English kindergarten or begun learning English in a classroom, and a control group of native English speakers. All participants performed a speeded aural grammaticality judgment task that included the following features: articles, subcategorization, plural -s, third-person -s. Results showed that the English-kindergarten group outperformed the late-classroom group in terms of accuracy for ungrammatical sentences, while the two groups did not differ significantly on grammatical sentences and in reaction time measures. The learners altogether scored higher in plural -s and third-person -s compared to articles. While the native speakers showed near-perfect accuracy and fast reaction times, the highly proficient learners were at near-chance level in detecting morpho-syntactic errors during online L2 aural processing.

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“…In VanPatten (1996), verb movement is discussed explicitly. The argument is that going from -VERB MOVEMENT to +VERB MOVEMENT does not require pedagogical intervention as the data in the input will cause the processing mechanisms to send the relevant data to the internal mechanisms (see VanPatten, Keating, & Leeser, 2012). The problem seems to be in going from + VERB MOVEMENT to -VERB MOVEMENT, as demonstrated by Trahey and White (1993).…”

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The comparative effects of processing instruction and dictogloss on the acquisition of the English passive by speakers of Turkish

Uludag

VanPatten

2012

International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

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The current study presents the results of an experiment investigating the effects of processing instruction (PI) and dictogloss (DG) on the acquisition of the English passive voice. Sixty speakers of Turkish studying English at university level were assigned to three groups: one receiving PI, the other receiving DG and the third serving as a control group. Assessment measurements consisted of an interpretation task, a sentence-level production task and a reconstruction task in a pretest-posttest design. The results indicated that PI offered an advantage over DG in terms of developing correct interpretation of passive structures in English. In addition, PI was found to be as good as DG in terms of developing sentence-level production and simple text reconstruction.

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Missing verbal inflections as a representational problem

Cited by 52 publications

References 39 publications

Cross-linguistic differences affect late Chinese-English learners on-line processing of English tense and aspect

Cross-linguistic differences affect late Chinese-English learners on-line processing of English tense and aspect

Age of Onset, Type of Exposure, and Ultimate Attainment of L2 Morpho-Syntactic Sensitivity

The comparative effects of processing instruction and dictogloss on the acquisition of the English passive by speakers of Turkish

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