Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish - Couverture rigide

Fernandez, Eva M.

 
9789027224989: Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish
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ISBN 10 : 9027224986 ISBN 13 : 9789027224989
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2003

Synopsis

The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review of existing research on relative clause attachment, showing that speakers of languages like English attach relative clauses differently than do speakers of languages like Spanish. Fernández reports the findings of an investigation with monolinguals and bilinguals, tested using speeded ("on-line") and unspeeded ("off-line") methodology, with materials in both English and Spanish. The experiments reveal similarities across the groups when the procedure is speeded, but differences with unspeeded questionnaires: The monolinguals replicate the standard cross-linguistic differences, while bilinguals have language-independent preferences determined by language dominance ― bilinguals process stimuli in either of their languages according to the general preferences of monolinguals of their dominant language.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review of existing research on relative clause attachment, showing that speakers of languages like English attach relative clauses differently than do speakers of languages like Spanish. Fernández reports the findings of an investigation with monolinguals and bilinguals, tested using speeded ("on-line") and unspeeded ("off-line") methodology, with materials in both English and Spanish. The experiments reveal similarities across the groups when the procedure is speeded, but differences with unspeeded questionnaires: The monolinguals replicate the standard cross-linguistic differences, while bilinguals have language-independent preferences determined by language dominance ― bilinguals process stimuli in either of their languages according to the general preferences of monolinguals of their dominant language.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027224986
ISBN 13 
9789027224989
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1588113450 ISBN 13 :  9781588113450
Editeur : John Benjamins Pub Co, 2003
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