Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension

Autor/inn/en	Lago, Sol; Stone, Kate; Oltrogge, Elise; Veríssimo, João
Titel	Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 73 (2023) 3, S.904-941 (38 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lago, Sol)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/lang.12556
Schlagwörter	Language Processing; Native Language; German; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Spanish; Comparative Analysis; Form Classes (Languages); Error Patterns; Gender Differences; Prediction; Contrastive Linguistics; English; Interference (Learning); Bilingualism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverarbeitung; Deutscher; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Spanisch; Analytischer Sprachbau; Fehlertyp; Geschlechterkonflikt; Vorhersage; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; English language; Englisch; Bilingualismus
Abstract	Second language (L2) learners make gender errors with possessive pronouns. In production, these errors are modulated by the gender match between the possessor and possessee noun. We examined whether this so-called match effect extends to L2 comprehension by attempting to replicate a recent study on gender predictions in first language (L1) German speakers (Stone, Veríssimo, et al., 2021). By comparing Spanish and English learners of L2 German whose languages have different possessive constraints, we were able to examine whether the match effect was modulated by the participants' L1. A first experiment suggested that predictions and match effects were absent in setups with complex visual displays. A second experiment with simpler displays successfully elicited predictions and match effects, but their size was comparable in Spanish and English speakers, inconsistent with crosslinguistic influence. We interpret our results as evidence that processing difficulties with possessives result from memory interference that impacts both L1 and L2 comprehenders. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01