Continuity and shallow structures in language processing

By Harald Clahsen, Claudia Felser. Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006

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SOME NOTES ON THE SHALLOW STRUCTURE HYPOTHESIS (2017, methodology): “We suggested earlier that L2 learners’ parsing problems might specifically pertain to the computation of discontinuous, grammatically mediated dependencies (Clahsen & Felser, 2006c), but recent findings suggest that an even more nuanced characterization is needed.”
Morphosyntactic processing in advanced second language (L2) learners: An event-related potential investigation of the effects of L1–L2 similarity and structural distance (2014, methodology): “No differences between number and gender are predicted, since the Shallow Structure Hypothesis assumes that L1 transfer does not play a deterministic role in L2 syntactic processing (e.g. Clahsen and Felser, 2006; Clahsen et al., 2010; Marinis et al., 2005).”
Proficiency and working memory based explanations for nonnative speakers’ sensitivity to agreement in sentence processing (2012, background): “Clahsen and Felser (2006b) also suggest that L2 learners may have difficulty computing agreement dependencies, with nativelike processing being restricted to local domains such as “morphosyntactic agreement between closely adjacent constituents” (p. 111).”