L2 Learners Do Not Ignore Verb's Subcategorization Information in Real-Time Syntactic Processing.

ABSTRACT: This study addressed the question of whether L2 learners are able to utilize verb's argument structure information in online structural analysis. Previous L2 research has shown that L2 learners have difficulty in using verb's intransitive information to guide online syntactic processing. This is true even though L2 learners have grammatical knowledge that is correct and similar to that of native speakers. In the present study, we contrasted three hypotheses, the initial inaccessibility account, the intransitivity overriding account, and the fuzzy subcategorization frame account, to investigate whether L2 learner's knowledge of intransitive verbs is in fact ignored in L2 online structural analysis. The initial inaccessibility account and the fuzzy subcategorization frame account predicted t

SUBMITTER: Nakamura C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8810650 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature