TY - JOUR
T1 - The effects of L2 proficiency level on the processing of wh-questions among Dutch second language speakers of English
AU - Jackson, Carrie N.
AU - Van Hell, Janet G.
N1 - Funding Information:
1. This study was funded by a grant from the Center for Language Science at Pennsylvania State University. This study was also funded in part by grant R03HD058765 from the Eu-nice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development to Carrie N. Jackson and NSF Grant OISE-0968369 and NSF Grant BCS-0955090 awarded to Janet van Hell. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development or the National Institutes of Health. We would like to thank Petra Aast, Tom Damen, Sjaron Jenneskens, Renske Leenders, Judith Siers, Ninke van Timmeren, and Marijt Witteman, for their help in collecting the Dutch-English L2 speaker data and Giulia Bor-riello, Kinsey Hallinger, Michael Lipschultz, Matthew Leaman, Emily Simms, and Stephanie Yessler for their help in collecting the English native speaker data. We would also like to thank Jared Linck and CJ Powers for their assistance with the statistical analyses. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Center for Language Science at Penn State. We are grateful to the attendees for their insightful comments. Finally, we would like to thank the anonymous IRAL reviewers for their comments on earlier versions of this article. All errors are, of course, our own.
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - Using a self-paced reading task, the present study explores how Dutch-English L2 speakers parse English wh-subject-extractions and wh-object-extractions. Results suggest that English native speakers and highly-proficient DutchEnglish L2 speakers do not always exhibit measurable signs of on-line reanalysis when reading subject-versus object-extractions in English. However, less-proficient Dutch-English L2 speakers exhibit greater processing costs on subject-extractions relative to object-extractions, similar to previously reported findings (e.g., Dussias and Piar, Second Language Research 26: 443472, 2010; Juffs, Second Language Research 21: 121151, 2005; Juffs and Harrington, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 17: 482516, 1995). These findings are discussed in light of relevant research surrounding on-line processing among L2 speakers and their ability to adopt native-like processing patterns in the L2.
AB - Using a self-paced reading task, the present study explores how Dutch-English L2 speakers parse English wh-subject-extractions and wh-object-extractions. Results suggest that English native speakers and highly-proficient DutchEnglish L2 speakers do not always exhibit measurable signs of on-line reanalysis when reading subject-versus object-extractions in English. However, less-proficient Dutch-English L2 speakers exhibit greater processing costs on subject-extractions relative to object-extractions, similar to previously reported findings (e.g., Dussias and Piar, Second Language Research 26: 443472, 2010; Juffs, Second Language Research 21: 121151, 2005; Juffs and Harrington, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 17: 482516, 1995). These findings are discussed in light of relevant research surrounding on-line processing among L2 speakers and their ability to adopt native-like processing patterns in the L2.
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U2 - 10.1515/iral.2011.012
DO - 10.1515/iral.2011.012
M3 - Article
C2 - 22888175
AN - SCOPUS:82055164199
SN - 0019-042X
VL - 49
SP - 195
EP - 219
JO - IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
JF - IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
IS - 3
ER -