TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boxell, Oliver
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Cunnings, Ian
T1  - Antecedent contained deletions in native and non-native sentence processing
JF  - Linguistic approaches to bilingualism
N2  - We report the results from an eye-movement monitoring study investigating native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers’ real-time processing of antecedent-contained deletion (ACD), a type of verb phrase ellipsis in which the ellipsis gap forms part of its own antecedent. The resulting interpretation problem is traditionally thought to be solved by quantifier raising, a covert scope-shifting operation that serves to remove the gap from within its antecedent. Our L2 group comprised advanced, native German-speaking L2 learners of English. The analysis of the eye-movement data showed that both L1 and L2 English speakers tried to recover the missing verb phrase after encountering the gap. Only the native speakers showed evidence of ellipsis resolution being affected by quantification, however. No effects of quantification following gap detection were found in the L2 group, by contrast, indicating that recovery of the elided material was accomplished independently from the object’s quantificational status in this group.
KW  - L2 processing
KW  - eye-movement monitoring
KW  - antecedent contained deletion
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.15006.box
SN  - 1879-9264
SN  - 1879-9272
VL  - 7
IS  - 5
SP  - 554
EP  - 582
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Co.
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boxell, Oliver
A1  - Felser, Claudia
T1  - Sensitivity to parasitic gaps inside subject islands in native and non-native sentence processing
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition.
KW  - Parasitic gaps
KW  - island constraints
KW  - bilingual sentence processing
KW  - eye-movement monitoring
KW  - English
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000942
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 20
SP  - 494
EP  - 511
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  -