Subject-verb dependency formation and semantic interference in native and non-native language comprehension.
Differences between native (L1) and non-native (L2) comprehension have been debated. This study explores whether a source of potential L1/L2 differences lies in susceptibility to memory-based interference during dependency formation. Interference effects are known to occur in sentences like The key...
| Publicado en: | Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 81 - 110 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2024
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