Relative clause processing in L1 and L2 English

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-08-03 DOI:10.1075/jsls.21008.wit

Jeffrey Witzel, Naoko Witzel

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This study investigates the locus of processing difficulty in English object-extracted relative clauses during both native and non-native sentence comprehension. Two L-maze experiments were conducted – one with English native speakers (n = 48) and another with highly proficient Chinese learners of English (n = 20) – to compare the processing of object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs) with that of subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs). Both participants groups revealed clear processing costs for ORC sentences. In both cases, this processing difficulty was localized at the beginning of the ORC, and specifically at the article that introduced the ORC subject (The soldier who the sailor roughly pushed….). These findings are taken to indicate that structural expectations play a central role in the first- and second-language processing of English relative clauses and of complex sentences more generally.

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一、二语英语中的关系从句处理

本研究调查了英语宾语提取关系从句在母语和非母语句子理解过程中的加工难度。进行了两个L迷宫实验——一个是以英语为母语的人（n = 48）和另一位精通英语的中国学生（n = 20） –比较对象提取的关系从句（ORCs）与主体提取的关系子句（SRCs）的处理。两组参与者都揭示了ORC句子的明显处理成本。在这两种情况下，这种处理困难都集中在ORC的开头，特别是在介绍ORC主题的文章中（水手粗暴地推着的士兵……）。这些发现表明，结构期望在英语关系从句和复句的第一和第二语言处理中起着核心作用。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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