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ERIC Number: EJ564103
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0023-8333
Main Verb Versus Reduced Relative Clause Ambiguity Resolution in L2 Sentence Processing.
Juffs, Alan
Language Learning, v48 n1 p107-47 Mar 1998
Investigated how adult learners of English-as-a-Second- Language (ESL) process sentences containing verbs that are temporarily ambiguous in interpretation between a main verb and a reduced relative clause. Seventeen Chinese, 17 Korean or Japanese, and 17 Romance learners with advanced ESL proficiency and a comparison group of 17 monolingual native speakers of English provided word-by-word reading times for six sentence types. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Adults, Advanced Students, Ambiguity, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Monolingualism, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Verbs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Parsing; Relative Clauses