Since Lenneberg (1967) proposed the critical period hypothesis, nativelike proficiency in late le... more Since Lenneberg (1967) proposed the critical period hypothesis, nativelike proficiency in late learners of a second language (L2) has been topic of L2 acquisition research. Even with the use of newly developed neuroimaging techniques such as the registration of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) during sentence processing, it remains unresolved whether the differences found between first language (L1) and L2 acquisition are caused by the age of acquisition or by differences in proficiency level. Whereas for semantic processes the difference seems to be mainly quantitative in nature, qualitative differences are reported for syntactic processes almost always involving those processes that are thought to be automatic. These processes are difficult to acquire and are generally learned late in L2 acquisition. In her paper, Mueller takes on the challenge to resolve this issue and focuses on the syntactic processing differences between L1 and L2 acquisition by performing two auditory ER...
The First A. Guiora Annual Roundtable Conference in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language: The C... more The First A. Guiora Annual Roundtable Conference in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language
This reading study registered eye movements to investigate the influence of different discourse c... more This reading study registered eye movements to investigate the influence of different discourse constructional factors on anaphor resolution in written discourse. More specifically, the study focused on the influence of the possible interplay of proximity between a possible referent and the anaphor and amount of elaboration on the time course of the different processes involved in anaphor resolution. Results at the anaphoric expression and the area immediately following the anaphoric expression reveal an effect of elaboration, but only in total reading times and second pass reading times. No effects were found at the reinstated referent. These results indicate that the difference in saliency between two possible referents almost directly influences anaphor resolution. We discuss these findings in relation to the time course of different processes in anaphor resolution such as bonding and resolution, in combination with a reading strategy that readers are satisfied with a superficial...
Item does not contain fulltext[Boston] 16th CUNY conference on human sentence processing, 29 maar... more Item does not contain fulltext[Boston] 16th CUNY conference on human sentence processing, 29 maart 2003Boston : [s.n.
Item does not contain fulltextJoensuuWorkshop on Animacy. 40th Annual meeting of the Societas Lin... more Item does not contain fulltextJoensuuWorkshop on Animacy. 40th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europae
Research on human language comprehension has been heavily influenced by properties of the English... more Research on human language comprehension has been heavily influenced by properties of the English language. Since case plays only a minor role in English, its role for language comprehension has only recently become a topic for extensive research on psycholinguistics. In the psycholinguistic literature, these processes are called the human parsing mechanism or the human sentence processing mechanism (HSPM). According to the Strong Competence Hypothesis, the syntactic structures computed by the HSPM are exactly those structures that are specified by the competence grammar. This article assumes that the HSPM computes phrase-structure representations enriched by various syntactic features, in particular case features on noun phrases. After providing a short introduction into current research concerned with the HSPM, it explores how syntactic functions are assigned in the face of morphological case ambiguity, the role of case for identifying clause boundaries in languages like Japanese ...
Since Lenneberg (1967) proposed the critical period hypothesis, nativelike proficiency in late le... more Since Lenneberg (1967) proposed the critical period hypothesis, nativelike proficiency in late learners of a second language (L2) has been topic of L2 acquisition research. Even with the use of newly developed neuroimaging techniques such as the registration of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) during sentence processing, it remains unresolved whether the differences found between first language (L1) and L2 acquisition are caused by the age of acquisition or by differences in proficiency level. Whereas for semantic processes the difference seems to be mainly quantitative in nature, qualitative differences are reported for syntactic processes almost always involving those processes that are thought to be automatic. These processes are difficult to acquire and are generally learned late in L2 acquisition. In her paper, Mueller takes on the challenge to resolve this issue and focuses on the syntactic processing differences between L1 and L2 acquisition by performing two auditory ER...
The First A. Guiora Annual Roundtable Conference in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language: The C... more The First A. Guiora Annual Roundtable Conference in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language
This reading study registered eye movements to investigate the influence of different discourse c... more This reading study registered eye movements to investigate the influence of different discourse constructional factors on anaphor resolution in written discourse. More specifically, the study focused on the influence of the possible interplay of proximity between a possible referent and the anaphor and amount of elaboration on the time course of the different processes involved in anaphor resolution. Results at the anaphoric expression and the area immediately following the anaphoric expression reveal an effect of elaboration, but only in total reading times and second pass reading times. No effects were found at the reinstated referent. These results indicate that the difference in saliency between two possible referents almost directly influences anaphor resolution. We discuss these findings in relation to the time course of different processes in anaphor resolution such as bonding and resolution, in combination with a reading strategy that readers are satisfied with a superficial...
Item does not contain fulltext[Boston] 16th CUNY conference on human sentence processing, 29 maar... more Item does not contain fulltext[Boston] 16th CUNY conference on human sentence processing, 29 maart 2003Boston : [s.n.
Item does not contain fulltextJoensuuWorkshop on Animacy. 40th Annual meeting of the Societas Lin... more Item does not contain fulltextJoensuuWorkshop on Animacy. 40th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europae
Research on human language comprehension has been heavily influenced by properties of the English... more Research on human language comprehension has been heavily influenced by properties of the English language. Since case plays only a minor role in English, its role for language comprehension has only recently become a topic for extensive research on psycholinguistics. In the psycholinguistic literature, these processes are called the human parsing mechanism or the human sentence processing mechanism (HSPM). According to the Strong Competence Hypothesis, the syntactic structures computed by the HSPM are exactly those structures that are specified by the competence grammar. This article assumes that the HSPM computes phrase-structure representations enriched by various syntactic features, in particular case features on noun phrases. After providing a short introduction into current research concerned with the HSPM, it explores how syntactic functions are assigned in the face of morphological case ambiguity, the role of case for identifying clause boundaries in languages like Japanese ...
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