TY  - JOUR
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Drummer, Janna-Deborah
T1  - Binding out of relative clauses in native and non-native sentence comprehension
JF  - Journal of psycholinguistic research
N2  - Pronouns can sometimes covary with a non c-commanding quantifier phrase (QP). To obtain such 'telescoping' readings, a semantic representation must be computed in which the QP's semantic scope extends beyond its surface scope. Non-native speakers have been claimed to have more difficulty than native speakers deriving such non-isomorphic syntax-semantics mappings, but evidence from processing studies is scarce. We report the results from an eye-movement monitoring experiment and an offline questionnaire investigating whether native and non-native speakers of German can link personal pronouns to non c-commanding QPs inside relative clauses. Our results show that both participant groups were able to obtain telescoping readings offline, but only the native speakers showed evidence of forming telescoping dependencies during incremental parsing. During processing the non-native speakers focused on a discourse-prominent, non-quantified alternative antecedent instead. The observed group differences indicate that non-native comprehenders have more difficulty than native comprehenders computing scope-shifted representations in real time.
KW  - Pronoun binding
KW  - c-command
KW  - Eye-movement monitoring
KW  - Non-native language
KW  - processing
KW  - German
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09845-z
SN  - 0090-6905
SN  - 1573-6555
VL  - 51
IS  - 4
SP  - 763
EP  - 788
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -