TY  - GEN
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Cunnings, Ian
A1  - Batterham, Claire
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - The timing of island effects in nonnative sentence processing
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Using the eye-movement monitoring technique in two reading comprehension experiments, this study investigated the timing of constraints on wh-dependencies (so-called island constraints) in first- and second-language (L1 and L2) sentence processing. The results show that both L1 and L2 speakers of English are sensitive to extraction islands during processing, suggesting that memory storage limitations affect L1 and L2 comprehenders in essentially the same way. Furthermore, these results show that the timing of island effects in L1 compared to L2 sentence comprehension is affected differently by the type of cue (semantic fit versus filled gaps) signaling whether dependency formation is possible at a potential gap site. Even though L1 English speakers showed immediate sensitivity to filled gaps but not to lack of semantic fit, proficient German-speaking learners of English as a L2 showed the opposite sensitivity pattern. This indicates that initial wh-dependency formation in L2 processing is based on semantic feature matching rather than being structurally mediated as in L1 comprehension.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 526 
KW  - trace positions
KW  - empty categories
KW  - garden-paths
KW  - 2nd-language
KW  - grammar
KW  - dependencies
KW  - plausibility
KW  - constraints
KW  - english
KW  - comprehension
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415179
SN  - 1866-8364
EP  - 526
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Adani, Flavia
A1  - Forgiarini, Matteo
A1  - Guasti, Maria Teresa
A1  - Van der Lely, Heather K. J.
T1  - Number dissimilarities facilitate the comprehension of relative clauses in children with (Grammatical) Specific Language Impairment
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - This study investigates whether number dissimilarities on subject and object DPs facilitate the comprehension of subject-and object-extracted centre-embedded relative clauses in children with Grammatical Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). We compared the performance of a group of English-speaking children with G-SLI (mean age: 12; 11) with that of two groups of younger typically developing (TD) children, matched on grammar and receptive vocabulary, respectively. All groups were more accurate on subject-extracted relative clauses than object-extracted ones and, crucially, they all showed greater accuracy for sentences with dissimilar number features (i.e., one singular, one plural) on the head noun and the embedded DP. These findings are interpreted in the light of current psycholinguistic models of sentence comprehension in TD children and provide further insight into the linguistic nature of G-SLI.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 525 
KW  - normally developing-children
KW  - speaking children
KW  - greek children
KW  - SLI
KW  - acquisition
KW  - english
KW  - intervention
KW  - dependencies
KW  - complexity
KW  - movement
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415453
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 525
SP  - 811
EP  - 841
ER  -