TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jacob, Gunnar
A1  - Felser, Claudia
T1  - Reanalysis and semantic persistence in native and non-native garden-path recovery
JF  - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology
N2  - We report the results from an eye-movement monitoring study investigating how native and non-native speakers of English process temporarily ambiguous sentences such as While the gentleman was eating the burgers were still being reheated in the microwave, in which an initially plausible direct-object analysis is first ruled out by a syntactic disambiguation (were) and also later on by semantic information (being reheated). Both participant groups showed garden-path effects at the syntactic disambiguation, with native speakers showing significantly stronger effects of ambiguity than non-native speakers in later eye-movement measures but equally strong effects in first-pass reading times. Ambiguity effects at the semantic disambiguation and in participants’ end-of-trial responses revealed that for both participant groups, the incorrect direct-object analysis was frequently maintained beyond the syntactic disambiguation. The non-native group showed weaker reanalysis effects at the syntactic disambiguation and was more likely to misinterpret the experimental sentences than the native group. Our results suggest that native language (L1) and non-native language (L2) parsing are similar with regard to sensitivity to syntactic and semantic error signals, but different with regard to processes of reanalysis.
KW  - Semantic persistence
KW  - Reanalysis
KW  - Non-native language processing
KW  - Garden-path recovery
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.984231
SN  - 1747-0218
SN  - 1747-0226
VL  - 69
SP  - 907
EP  - 925
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Drummer, Janna-Deborah
T1  - Sensitivity to Crossover Constraints During Native and Non-native Pronoun Resolution
JF  - Journal of psycholinguistic research
N2  - We report the results from two experiments examining native and non-native German speakers’ sensitivity to crossover constraints on pronoun resolution. Our critical stimuli sentences contained personal pronouns in either strong (SCO) or weak crossover (WCO) configurations. Using eye-movement monitoring during reading and a gender-mismatch paradigm, Experiment 1 investigated whether a fronted wh-phrase would be considered as a potential antecedent for a pronoun intervening between the wh-phrase and its canonical position. Both native and non-native readers initially attempted coreference in WCO but not in SCO configurations, as evidenced by early gender-mismatch effects in our WCO conditions. Experiment 2 was an offline antecedent judgement task whose results mirrored the SCO/WCO asymmetry observed in our reading-time data. Taken together, our results show that the SCO constraint immediately restricts pronoun interpretation in both native and non-native comprehension, and further suggest that SCO and WCO constraints derive from different sources.
KW  - Strong crossover
KW  - Weak crossover
KW  - Pronoun resolution
KW  - Eye-movement monitoring
KW  - German
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-016-9465-8
SN  - 0090-6905
SN  - 1573-6555
VL  - 46
SP  - 771
EP  - 789
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -