What is it about?
The paper reports results from a visual world paradigm study, in which we manipulated gender congruence between a subject pronoun and two antecedents to investigate whether L2 learners with a null subject first language (Greek L1) acquire and process overt subject pronouns in a non-null subject L2 (i.e. English) in a nativelike way and whether L2 speakers revise an initial interpretation assigned to an ambiguous pronoun when information in the visual context subsequently biased against it.
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Why is it important?
Our results indicate that L2 speakers from a null subject background can acquire the interpretive preferences of overt pronouns in a non-null subject L2. The eye-movement data indicate that anaphora processing can become qualitatively similar in native and non-native speakers in the domain of subject pronoun resolution, but indicate reanalysis may cause difficulty during L2 processing.
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Working on this study was a great opportunity for me to collaborate with well distinguished researchers. The present research was the first eye-tracking study reporting Anaphora Resolution in Greek and lead to growing even more the interest of Greek scholars for this methodology.
Dr. Georgia Fotiadou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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This page is a summary of: ANAPHORA RESOLUTION AND REANALYSIS DURING L2 SENTENCE PROCESSING, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, August 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0272263116000292.
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