TY - CHAP
T1 - The processing of intrasentential anaphoric subject pronouns in L2 Spanish
AU - Comínguez, Juan P.
AU - Sagarra, Nuria
AU - Bel, Aurora
AU - García-Alcaraz, Estela
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been founded by a grant from the Spanish Government’s Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (#FFI2012-35058). We would like to thank the Instituto Cervantes of Marrakech for its collaborative support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 John Benjamins Publishing Company
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper examines whether L2 learners of Spanish can attain native-like interpretive and parsing patterns in intrasentential subject anaphor resolution, and the extent to which these patterns are modulated by L1 transfer. Adult advanced L2 learners of Spanish with different L1s (Moroccan Arabic, a null-subject language, and English, a non-null subject language) completed an experiment utilizing online (the moving window paradigm) and offline (answers to comprehension questions) techniques. Both Arabic and English learners of Spanish performed in a native-like way at the interpretive and parsing levels. These patterns suggest that L1 transfer plays no crucial role when interpreting and processing intrasentential anaphoric subjects at least at the advanced level.
AB - This paper examines whether L2 learners of Spanish can attain native-like interpretive and parsing patterns in intrasentential subject anaphor resolution, and the extent to which these patterns are modulated by L1 transfer. Adult advanced L2 learners of Spanish with different L1s (Moroccan Arabic, a null-subject language, and English, a non-null subject language) completed an experiment utilizing online (the moving window paradigm) and offline (answers to comprehension questions) techniques. Both Arabic and English learners of Spanish performed in a native-like way at the interpretive and parsing levels. These patterns suggest that L1 transfer plays no crucial role when interpreting and processing intrasentential anaphoric subjects at least at the advanced level.
KW - Intrasentential subject anaphora
KW - L2 Spanish
KW - Language parsing
KW - Null-subject languages
KW - Subject pronouns
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U2 - 10.1075/rllt.11.12com
DO - 10.1075/rllt.11.12com
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85121756747
T3 - Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory
SP - 247
EP - 264
BT - Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11. Selected papers from the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), London, Ontario
A2 - Silvia, Perpinan
A2 - Heap, David
A2 - Moreno-Villamar, Itziri
A2 - Soto-Corominas, Adriana
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
ER -