• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Some effects of first language argument structure and morphosyntax on second language sentence processing
  • Contributor: Juffs, Alan
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 1998
  • Published in: Second Language Research, 14 (1998) 4, Seite 406-424
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1191/026765898668800317
  • ISSN: 0267-6583; 1477-0326
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  • Description: This article explores some effects of first language verb-argument structure on second language processing of English as a second language. Speakers of Chinese, Japanese or Korean, three Romance languages and native English speakers provided word-by-word reading times and grammaticality judgement data in a self-paced reading task. Results suggest that reliable differences in parsing are not restricted to cases where verb-argument structure differs crosslinguistically.