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The on-line processing of binding principles in second language acquisition: Evidence from eye tracking

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Author	Kim, Eunah Montrul, Silvina Yoon, James
Copyright Year	2014
Description	This study examined how adult L2 learners make use of grammatical and extragrammatical information to interpret reflexives and pronouns. Forty adult English native speakers and 32 intermediate–advanced Korean L2 learners participated in a visual world paradigm eye-tracking experiment. We investigated the interpretation of reflexives (himself) and pronouns (him) in contexts where there is a potential coargument antecedent and in the context of picture noun phrases (a picture of him/himself), where the distribution of reflexives and pronouns can overlap. The results indicated that the learners interpreted reflexives in a nativelike fashion in both contexts, whereas they interpreted pronouns differently from native speakers, even when learners had advanced English proficiency. Adopting the binding theory as developed in the reflexivity/primitives of binding framework (Reinhart & Reuland, 1993; Reuland, 2001, 2011), we interpret these results to mean that while adult L2 learners are able to apply syntactic binding principles to assign an interpretation to anaphoric expressions, they have difficulty in integrating syntactic information with contextual and discourse information.
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Ending Page	1374
Page Count	58
Starting Page	1317
ISSN	01427164
e-ISSN	14691817
DOI	10.1017/s0142716414000307
Journal	Applied Psycholinguistics
Issue Number	6
Volume Number	36
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2015-11-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Applied Psycholinguistics Language Studies Interpreted Reflexives Adult L2 Learners
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language

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