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Interaction between syntactic and information structure in the second language processing of Korean dative sentences 朝鲜语附加句二语加工中句法结构与信息结构的相互作用

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221140857

Hyunwoo Kim, Sun Hee Park

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Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children 意德双语儿童的修辞问题理解

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221140861

Miriam Geiss, M. Ferin, T. Marinis, T. Kupisch

{"title":"Rhetorical question comprehension by Italian–German bilingual children","authors":"Miriam Geiss, M. Ferin, T. Marinis, T. Kupisch","doi":"10.1177/02676583221140861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221140861","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates for the first time the comprehension of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in bilingual children. RhQs are non-canonical questions, as they are not used to request information, but to express the speaker’s belief that the answer is already obvious. This special pragmatic meaning often arises by means of specific prosodic and lexical-syntactic cues. Being childhood learners, children have to acquire the concept of rhetoricity, but being bilinguals, they further need to acquire the different cues marking RhQs in their two languages. We tested 85 bilingual children (aged 6–9 years) with Italian as heritage language (HL) and German as majority language (ML) in both of their languages, using a forced-choice comprehension task. Our results show that RhQ comprehension improves with age in both languages. Bilingual children are able to exploit prosodic and syntactic cues to comprehend RhQs in their ML and HL with a slight advantage in the ML. This advantage could be either an effect of the cues used in the experiments in the two languages or of a higher proficiency in the ML. In addition, our results point to a later acquisition of prosodic rhetorical cues, which has implications for bilingual acquisition of non-canonicity in general.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48765144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions 作为一种系统中介语现象的空预语：来自关系从句、疑问句和定语从句的证据

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-12-05 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221132198

Sílvia Perpiñán, A. Cardinaletti

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Scalar implicatures in adult L2 learners: A self-paced reading study 成人二语学习者的标量含义:一项自定节奏阅读研究

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221134058

Jacee Cho

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Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model 英语二语汉语中空、显性主语的依赖消解：基于线索模型的证据

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-26 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221135189

Lilong Xu, Boping Yuan

{"title":"Dependency resolutions of null and overt subjects in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence for the cue-based model","authors":"Lilong Xu, Boping Yuan","doi":"10.1177/02676583221135189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221135189","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates whether there are different first-language–second-language (L1–L2) dependency resolutions by focusing on less-studied crosslinguistic variances in L2 acquisition of Chinese, a null-subject language, by speakers of English, a non-null-subject language. The overt subject pronoun of a Chinese main clause has free orientation and its antecedent can be the subject or object of the preceding causal subordinate clause, depending on pragmatic biases. The null subject of a Chinese main clause, however, is subject-oriented, and this subject orientation is not affected by any pragmatic bias. English does not allow null subjects, and like Chinese, overt subject pronouns in English have free orientation. An acceptability judgement task and an interpretation task were adopted and the results suggest that only the free orientation of overt subjects, but not the subject orientation of null subjects, is acquirable for English-speaking learners; they are found to be influenced by the pragmatic bias. This provides evidence for the cue-based model (Cunnings, 2017), which states that L1–L2 differences in dependency resolution can be explained in terms of L1–L2 differences in susceptibility to interference and L2ers’ over-reliance on discourse-based/pragmatic cues. It is also observed that in L1 Chinese, competition between the target antecedent and distractors occurs during the reading of the sentence, while in L2 Chinese, this occurs after the reading of the sentence. These findings add to our growing understanding of different mechanisms in L1 vs. L2 dependency resolutions.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45061255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events: A synthesis study on L2 acquisition of Chinese motion expressions 运动事件概念化过程中的跨语言影响——汉语运动表达二语习得综合研究

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221132205

Shu-ling Wu, Takako Nunome, J. Wang

{"title":"Crosslinguistic influence in the conceptualization of motion events: A synthesis study on L2 acquisition of Chinese motion expressions","authors":"Shu-ling Wu, Takako Nunome, J. Wang","doi":"10.1177/02676583221132205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221132205","url":null,"abstract":"As Chinese shows both satellite- and verb-framed properties (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2012, 2016), it provides a unique lens through which to observe the extent of first-language (L1) typological influence in second language (L2) acquisition of motion expressions. This study has dual purposes. First, it extends Wu’s (2016) investigation on motion expressions produced by 80 L1 satellite-framed English learners of L2 Chinese to include newly collected data produced by L1 verb-framed speakers, a sample comprised of 41 L1 Japanese learners of Chinese and 40 Japanese native speakers. Second, it synthesizes the data from both studies and comprehensively examines factors that have been proposed to affect development of L2 thinking-for-speaking (TFS) patterns. The results show that development of L2 TFS is best predicted by learners’ L1 type, but the effect is mitigated by L2 proficiency. While the L1 English learners outperform L1 Japanese learners in their development of target-like L2 Chinese TFS, learners with limited L2 proficiency in both groups tend to adopt verb-framed strategies to express only the core path information of a motion event and leave out the manner details. Analysis of L1 Japanese learners’ oral narratives in L1 Japanese and L2 Chinese also shows that reverse L2-to-L1 transfer is less likely to happen when learning a typologically closer L2 that requires minimal restructuring of their L1 TFS.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47549807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The relationship between perception and production of illusory vowels in a second language 第二语言中虚幻元音的感知与产生的关系

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221135185

Song Yi Kim, Jeong-Im Han

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SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective 复杂、动态和可预测的SLA：可加工性理论视角

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-04 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221132726

B. Dyson

{"title":"SLA as complex, dynamical and predictable: A Processability Theory perspective","authors":"B. Dyson","doi":"10.1177/02676583221132726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221132726","url":null,"abstract":"This article enters the debate about the complex and dynamical nature of second language acquisition (SLA) by discussing and commenting on Pallotti’s critique of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). Pallotti’s critique brings to the fore the argument that, due to its anti-reductionist stance, CDST research fails to observe three fundamental research criteria, namely that research should (1) construct models, (2) make generalizations and falsifiable predictions and (3) adopt clear empirical approaches. While Pallotti does not explore research already moving SLA beyond anti-reductionist approaches to complexity and dynamism, the debate can be advanced by examining research doing exactly this. This article aims to evaluate the extent to which Processability Theory (PT) – a theory of second language (L2) processing that advocates reductionism for the sake of theory construction – meets Pallotti’s criteria for researching L2 complexity and dynamics. By discussing Pallotti’s – and PT’s – criticisms of CDST, the article outlines the implied research criteria and delineates how PT meets these criteria by (1) its bidimensional design, (2) its generalizations and falsifiable predictions for development and variation, and (3) its operationalization of constructs. Findings from a longitudinal study of L2 English are presented. These findings elucidate that, by meeting the criteria, PT can reveal the predictable, implicational development of processing complexity in eight learners and the patterned, dynamical interaction between development and variation in the trajectories of two of these learners. The article concludes that PT fulfils Pallotti’s (2022) criteria and, by a reductionist approach which models SLA as multidimensional, it can generate what CDST cannot; dynamical and complex L2 systems which progress in predictable stages, with well-defined constraints on variation, including DST-defined constraints. The article closes by discussing the implications of PT’s approach for future research on L2 complexity and dynamics.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47915018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect 成人学习者能自动感知二语情感词汇吗?第二语言使用对情绪斯特鲁普效应的影响

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-11-03 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221131256

S. Ahn, Nan Jiang

{"title":"Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect","authors":"S. Ahn, Nan Jiang","doi":"10.1177/02676583221131256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221131256","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigated whether adult learners of second language (L2) can automatically activate emotional connotation during emotional word recognition as compared native (L1) users and whether L2 use plays a significant role in it. The automaticity of activation was measured through the emotional Stroop task. In this task, emotional words and neutral words were displayed in two different colors, and the participants were asked to indicate the color by button press. Results showed a delay in L2 learners’ response to emotional words (the emotional Stroop effect) without significant differences from L1 users’ response, indicating comparable automaticity in activating emotional connotation in performing the task. Further analyses on the effect of L2 use revealed its significant role in increasing the emotional Stroop effect. Specifically, L2 learners with higher amount of L2 use in daily life produced a significant emotion Stroop effect comparable to L1 users, while L2 learners with lower L2 use did not. We discuss the importance of L2 use in actual context in automatic processing of L2 emotional words, especially among adult learners who began L2 learning in adulthood in a case of underrepresented languages as L2.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44925927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels 瓶颈假说的检验：中国英语学习者在不同水平上的形态和句法知识

IF 2.4 2区文学

Second Language Research Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1177/02676583221128520

Shiyu Wu, Dilin Liu, Zan Li

{"title":"Testing the Bottleneck Hypothesis: Chinese EFL learners’ knowledge of morphology and syntax across proficiency levels","authors":"Shiyu Wu, Dilin Liu, Zan Li","doi":"10.1177/02676583221128520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221128520","url":null,"abstract":"This study tests the Bottleneck Hypothesis (BH) that functional morphology presents the greatest difficulty in second language acquisition by examining Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ knowledge of both functional morphological properties and core syntactic properties across three language proficiency levels. Specifically, this study compares Chinese EFL learners’ grasp of subject–verb agreement (a functional morphological property) vs. their grasp of the syntactic formation rules (properties) of WH-questions including WH-movement, WH-do-insertion (i.e. the insertion of the auxiliary do), and WH-do-inversion (subject–auxiliary inversion): three core syntactic transformation rules. Analyses of the experimental results using generalized mixed-effects models yield complex results that generally support the BH. While subject–verb agreement was found to be persistently more difficult than WH-movement and WH-do-inversion, it was shown to pose essentially the same level of difficulty as WH-do-insertion due to the fact that the latter also involves the application of the functional features of SV-agreement and tense, i.e. the high level of difficulty of WH-do-insertion likely lies in its accompanying application of functional features. Possible explanations for the complex results and their implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47379217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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