Changing Comprehenders' Pronoun Interpretations: Immediate and Cumulative Priming at the Discourse Level in L2 and Native Speakers of English

Autor/in	Contemori, Carla
Titel	Changing Comprehenders' Pronoun Interpretations: Immediate and Cumulative Priming at the Discourse Level in L2 and Native Speakers of English
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 37 (2021) 4, S.573-586 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Contemori, Carla)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658319886644
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Native Speakers; Form Classes (Languages); Priming; Language Processing; Language Proficiency; Native Language; Spanish; Language Variation; Psycholinguistics; Mexican Americans; Language Tests; Sentence Structure; Task Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Muttersprachler; Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachverarbeitung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Spanisch; Sprachenvielfalt; Psycholinguistik; Hispanoamerikaner; Language test; Sprachtest; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Aufgabenanalyse
Abstract	Existing research on second language (L2) pronoun resolution has not yet looked at immediate and cumulative priming effects. By using a sentence comprehension task, the present study aims at priming dis-preferred interpretations for ambiguous pronouns. We test a group of native speakers and a group of intermediate-proficiency L2 learners of English, whose first language (L1) is Mexican Spanish. The results suggest that the magnitude of the immediate priming effect is comparable in L2 and native speakers. In addition, we found that priming at the discourse level can be persistent for L2 speakers that have successfully acquired pronoun interpretation constraints in the L2. Based on the findings, we hypothesize that priming can be determined by the degree to which the structure is a stable representation in the leaner's system, regardless of the amount of experience with that structure/preference. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01