Proficiency Level and the Interaction of Lexical and Morphosyntactic Information During L2 Sentence Processing

Jackson, Carrie N.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9922.2008.00481.x

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“…Existing work on online processing in L1 English-L2 German has found that intermediate and advanced learners tend to have similar subject-first parsing strategies as native speakers (Jackson 2008(Jackson , 2010. Overall, these results seem to reflect target parsing strategies and so do not support the notion that L2 processing is generally "shallower" than native processing.…”

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Word order and case in the comprehension of L2 German by L1 English speakers

Rankin

2014

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This paper replicates and extends experiments by Grüter (2006) and Grüter & Conradie (2006) to explore some of the learnability implications of Full Transfer at the initial state of L2A. L1 English-speaking learners' comprehension of L2 German questions and relative clauses is tested on the basis of a picture interpretation task. Patterns of (mis)interpretation of the German clauses suggest that lower-intermediate proficiency learners still access the L1 syntax in order to parse L2 input. This is taken to indicate that learners are influenced by L1 word order patterns in assigning thematic roles in L2 clauses. This is discussed in light of approaches to L2 parsing and processing which attribute different roles to L1 influence.

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“…Two studies (Jackson 2008(Jackson , 2010 in particular provide interesting points of comparison with Grüter. These studies also tested the comprehension of simple tense and compound tense wh-questions, but with case-marking information unambiguously marking thematic roles.…”

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Word order and case in the comprehension of L2 German by L1 English speakers

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2014

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“…The L1 English participants in another self-paced reading study of case and word order in L2 German (Jackson, 2008) also showed a native-like preference for subjectfirst order, in this case with temporarily ambiguous wh-questions. The native-like preference was only evident among a higher proficiency L2 participant group and only in sentences with simple past tense, in which the lexical verb preceded the second verbal argument in the disambiguating region, and not with the present perfect, in which the lexical verb comes at the end of the sentence in German, after the disambiguating region.…”

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The processing of case in near-native Spanish

Jegerski

2015

Second Language Research

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This article reports a study that sought to determine whether non-native sentence comprehension can show sensitivity to two different types of Spanish case marking. Sensitivity to case violations was generally more robust with indirect objects in ditransitive constructions than with differential object marking of animate direct objects, even among native speakers of Spanish, which probably reflects linguistic differences in the two types of case. In addition, the overall outcome of two experiments shows that second language (L2) processing can integrate case information, but that, unlike with native processing, attention to a case marker may depend on the presence of a preverbal clitic as an additional cue to the types of postverbal arguments that might occur in a stimulus. Specifically, L2 readers showed no sensitivity to differential object marking with a in the absence of clitics in the first experiment, with stimuli such as Verónica visita al/el presidente todos los meses 'Veronica visits the [ACC/NOM] president every month', but the L2 readers in the second experiment showed native-like sensitivity to the same marker when the object it marked was doubled by the clitic lo, as in Verónica lo visita al/el presidente todos los meses. With indirect objects, on the other hand, sensitivity to case markers was native-like in both experiments, although indirect objects were also always doubled by the preverbal clitic le. The apparent first language / second language contrast suggests differences in processing strategy, whereby non-native processing of morphosyntax may rely more on the predictability of forms than does native processing.

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“…In a visual world eyetracking experiment, we have been testing whether inflection is processed incrementally by intermediate to advanced adult L2ers (Hopp, in preparation). A series of previous studies demonstrated that even advanced L2 learners do not seem to use case information incrementally when parsing non-canonical word orders (e.g., Hopp, 2006;Jackson, 2007Jackson, , 2008. Although advanced L2ers comprehend word order alternations and evince on-line sensitivity to morphologically marked word order changes at the end of sentences in self-paced reading experiments, they appear unable to integrate inflection and syntax incrementally when non-canonical orders are signalled by morphological case marking.…”

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Extended patterns and computational complexity

Hopp

2011

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Antonella Sorace presents a cogent summary of much of the research carried out with reference to the Interface Hypothesis in bilingual acquisition, in particular near-native endstate adult L2 acquisition. She argues that residual non-convergence at the L2 endstate cannot be traced to a single interface because few, if any, grammatical phenomena can be neatly associated with a single interface.At the same time, studies of a phenomenon at a particular interface provide only a snapshot of an endstate L2 system which reveals but a margin of its overall architecture. In this commentary, I would like to sketch how investigating the interaction of different interfaces can help us further delineate the scope and nature of residual optionality at the near-native L2 endstate. In particular, I argue that adopting such an approach allows us to test the extent to which the Interface Hypothesis can be recast in more general terms of computational complexity.Inspired by the pattern approach in Martohardjono (1993), I advocated the "Extended Pattern Approach" which probes phenomena across various interfaces in the same endstate speakers and tracks their interactions across different off-line and on-line tasks (Hopp, 2007). The Extended Pattern Approach investigates the internal systematicity of endstate L2 systems across interconnected grammatical phenomena in linguistic representation and processing. As such, it goes beyond testing whether L2ers show target processing on a single phenomenon; rather, its criterion for convergence is whether endstate L2ers show a target relative pattern across a range of interfaces. Such an approach allows us to establish the degree of internal systematicity of interlanguage grammars at the endstate. Crucially, its comparative rationale identifies (a) which interfaces are problematic and (b) whether difficulties observed at different interfaces may have common underlying causes in either grammatical representation or processing.In a set of experiments on advanced and near-native L2 learners of German reported in Hopp (2007), different interface aspects of the same grammatical phenomenon, word-order variation by so-called scrambling, were studied in off-line

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Proficiency Level and the Interaction of Lexical and Morphosyntactic Information During L2 Sentence Processing

Cited by 83 publications

References 33 publications

Word order and case in the comprehension of L2 German by L1 English speakers

Word order and case in the comprehension of L2 German by L1 English speakers

The processing of case in near-native Spanish

Extended patterns and computational complexity

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