PMID- 26349999
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170428
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 1573-6555 (Electronic)
IS  - 0090-6905 (Linking)
VI  - 45
IP  - 5
DP  - 2016 Oct
TI  - Use of Referential Discourse Contexts in L2 Offline and Online Sentence 
      Processing.
PG  - 1045-65
LID - 10.1007/s10936-015-9393-z [doi]
AB  - The present study aimed to investigate (a) the extent to which Chinese-speaking 
      learners of English in Taiwan use referential noun phrase (NP) information 
      contained in discourse contexts to complete ambiguous noun/verb fragments in a 
      sentence completion task, and (b) whether and when they use the contexts to 
      disambiguate main verb versus reduced relative clause (MV/RRC) ambiguities in 
      real time. Results showed that unlike native English speakers, English learners 
      did not create a marked increase in RRC completions in biasing two-NP-referent 
      discourse contexts except for advanced learners. Nevertheless, like native 
      speakers, the learners at elementary, intermediate, and advanced English 
      proficiency levels all used the information in a later stage of resolving the 
      MV/RRC ambiguities in real time. The delayed effect of referential context 
      information observed suggests that L2 learners, like native speakers, are able to 
      construct syntax-to-discourse mappings in real time. It also suggests that 
      processing of syntactic information takes precedence over integration of 
      syntactic information with discourse information during L1 and L2 online sentence 
      processing.
FAU - Yang, Pi-Lan
AU  - Yang PL
AD  - Foreign Languages Education Center, National Kaohsiung Marine University, 
      Kaohsiung, Taiwan. pilany@webmail.nkmu.edu.tw.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Psycholinguist Res
JT  - Journal of psycholinguistic research
JID - 0333506
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Learning
MH  - Male
MH  - *Multilingualism
MH  - Psycholinguistics/*methods
MH  - *Reading
MH  - Taiwan
MH  - United Kingdom
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - L2 offline and online sentence processing
OT  - MV/RRC ambiguities
OT  - Referential discourse contexts
EDAT- 2015/09/10 06:00
MHDA- 2017/04/30 06:00
CRDT- 2015/09/10 06:00
PHST- 2015/09/10 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/09/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/04/30 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s10936-015-9393-z [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10936-015-9393-z [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Psycholinguist Res. 2016 Oct;45(5):1045-65. doi: 10.1007/s10936-015-9393-z.