SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION IN L2 LEARNERS

By Paola E. Dussias. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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A systematic review of transfer studies in third language acquisition (2018, unknown): “…used, particularly along two axes: online (i.e., real-time) vs. offline measures, and comprehension vs. production tasks (e.g., Bialystok, 1979, 1982; Bowles, 2011; Dussias, 2003, 2004; Ellis, 2005; Godfroid et al., 2015; Jegerski, Keating, and VanPatten, 2016; Villegas, 2014; among many others).”
Language selectivity is the exception, not the rule: Arguments against a fixed locus of language selection in bilingual speech (2006, background): “3 The sustained consequences of cross-language permeability are also evident at other levels of bilingual performance and in the observation of language contact phenomena (e.g. Dussias, 2003; Malt and Sloman, 2003; Bullock and Toribio, 2004).”
Parsing a first language like a second: The erosion of L1 parsing strategies in Spanish-English Bilinguals (2004, background): “The past decade has seen a growing interest in the investigation of on-line parsing performance in bilingual sentence processing from the point of view of language acquisition (e.g., Dussias, 2003; Fernández, 1995, 1999; Juffs, 1998a and b; Juffs & Harrington, 1995; White & Juffs, 1998).”
Syntactic features and reanalysis in near-native processing (2006, background): “Dussias (2003) reports that Spanish learners of English show native-like preferences in reading the L2; however, these learners, unlike Spanish monolinguals, also show a low attachment preference in their native Spanish (see also Fernandez, 2003).”
The effect of exposure on syntactic parsing in Spanish–English bilinguals (2007, background): “Similar findings are reported in Dussias (2003), who also tested Spanish–English bilinguals in their two languages.”
Age and Second Language Acquisition and Processing: A Selective Overview (2006, background): “…have been noted in the areas of lexical retrieval, structural ambiguity resolution, and detection of acoustic distinctions in the areas of syllable stress, consonant voicing, and vowel length (e.g., Clahsen & Felser, 2006; Dussias, 2004; Dupoux & Peperkamp, 2002; Papadopoulou & Clahsen, 2004).”
Juggling Two Languages in One Mind (2008, background): “One finding from bilingual parsing work (Dussias, 2003b; Dussias & Sagarra, 2007; Fern!andez, 2003) suggests that parsing decisions are dynamic and that daily exposure to the L2 may give rise to shifts in the strategies that bilinguals recruit during syntactic ambiguity resolution, even in the…”
Effects of reading span and plausibility in the reanalysis of wh-gaps by Chinese-English second language speakers (2010, result): “A comparison of the findings in Dussias (2003) and Dussias and Sagarra (2007) leads to the same conclusion.”
Understanding the Consequences of Bilingualism for Language Processing and Cognition (2013, background): “One line of research has addressed the influence of the L2 on L1 parsing preferences in Spanish-English bilinguals immersed in the L2 (e.g., Dussias, 2003; Dussias & Sagarra, 2007).”
ONLINE PRONOUN RESOLUTION IN L2 DISCOURSE: L1 Influence and General Learner Effects (2008, background): “…because there is a difference in how speakers of different languages prefer to resolve the ambiguity + Some have found that L2 learners apply the parsing preference of their L1 in resolving these ambiguities , at least at lower proficiency levels ~ Dussias , 2003 ; Frenck-Mestre , 1997 , 2002 !”
Processing empty categories in a second language: When naturalistic exposure fills the (intermediate) gap* (2012, background): “In addition, Dussias (2003) and Dussias and Sagarra (2007) showed that extensive naturalistic exposure can also have the reverse effect, i.e. L2 learners using processing strategies of their L2 when they process their L1.”
Second language acquisition and first language loss in adult early bilinguals: exploring some differences and similarities (2005, background): “An example of this is Jakobson’s (1941) influential regression hypothesis, which states that language loss is a mirror image of language acquisition.”
Parsing and Working Memory in Bilingual Sentence Processing (2016, background): “Papadopoulou and Clahsen (2003), and Dussias (2003), reported similar results of no clear attachment preference in L2 Greek and L2 Spanish respectively.”
Grammatical processing in language learners (2006, background): “…preferences for relative clauses with complex genitive antecedents, consistently showing no preference for either NP1 or NP2 attachment instead (Dussias, 2003; Felser, Roberts et al., 2003; Papadopoulou & Clahsen, 2003; but see Frenck-Mestre, 2002).2 Papadopoulou and Clahsen’s (2003) study…”
On the bilingual competence of Spanish heritage speakers: Syntax, lexical-semantics and processing (2006, background): “Results of relative clause attachment preferences have shown that this is largely the case: L2 learners transfer low or high attachment parsing strategies from their L1 (Dussias 2003; Felser, Roberts, Gross, and Marinis, 2002; Fernández, 1999).”