Alison Gabriele

Feroce, Nick, Robert Fiorentino, Lauren Covey and Alison Gabriele 2020 Chapter 7. Neural evidence for the processing of referential ambiguity and referential failure in Spanish Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Pascual y Cabo, Diego and Idoia Elola (eds.), pp. 153–174 | Chapter

The present study uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine how native Spanish speakers comprehend overt pronouns in two referentially challenging contexts: sentences in which a pronoun has two gender-matching antecedents (referential ambiguity), and sentences in which there are no… read more

Gabriele, Alison, José Alemán Bañón, Beatriz López Prego and Alonso Canales 2015 Chapter 5. Examining the influence of transfer and prototypes on the acquisition of the present progressive in L2 Spanish The Acquisition of the Present, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 113–152 | Article

We focus on the interpretation of the present progressive by English-speaking learners of Spanish (n=49) in order to examine whether L2 learners transfer all of the associated interpretations of a given form from the L1 or whether transfer is limited to the prototypes of a given form (Gass & Ard… read more

Gabriele, Alison, Robert Fiorentino and Adrienne Johnson 2015 Attentional control and prediction in native and non-native speakers Epistemological issue with keynote article “The role of language processing in language acquisition” by Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer, pp. 470–475 | Commentary

López Prego, Beatriz and Alison Gabriele 2014 Examining the impact of task demands on morphological variability in native and non-native Spanish* Parsing to Learn, Dekydtspotter, Laurent and Claire Renaud (eds.), pp. 192–221 | Introduction

The study tests representational and computational accounts of morphological variability in English-speaking learners of Spanish by examining performance on gender and number agreement under different task demands. Second language (L2) learners took either a Speeded grammaticality judgment task… read more

Gabriele, Alison, Robert Fiorentino and José Alemán Bañón 2013 Examining second language development using event-related potentials: A cross-sectional study on the processing of gender and number agreement Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:2, pp. 213–232 | Article

This cross-sectional study examines the role of L1-L2 differences and structural distance in the processing of gender and number agreement by English-speaking learners of Spanish at three different levels of proficiency. Preliminary results show that differences between the L1 and L2 impact L2… read more

Kulundary, Valeria and Alison Gabriele 2012 Examining the role of L2 syntactic development in L3 acquisition: A look at relative clauses Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood, Cabrelli, Jennifer, Suzanne Flynn and Jason Rothman (eds.), pp. 195–222 | Article

We examine the role of L2 syntactic development in L3 acquisition. Participants included 132 L3 learners of English (L2 Russian/L1 Tuvan) and 20 L2 learners of English (L1 Russian). The study focused on the comprehension of coordinate clauses and relative clauses, structures which are similar in… read more

Aldwayan, Saad, Robert Fiorentino and Alison Gabriele 2010 Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement: A study of Najdi Arabic learners of English Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing, VanPatten, Bill and Jill Jegerski (eds.), pp. 65–86 | Article

Recent proposals have suggested that second language learners, unlike native speakers, are ‘shallow processors’ in that they do not make use of abstract syntactic knowledge in parsing, relying instead on lexical semantic knowledge and pragmatic notions such as plausibility (Clahsen & Felser,… read more

Gabriele, Alison and Junko Maekawa 2008 Interpreting tense in a second language EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 8 (2008), Roberts, Leah, Florence Myles and Annabelle David (eds.), pp. 79–106 | Article

The question of whether adult native speakers of Chinese, a language that does not morphosyntactically represent tense, are able to acquire tense in English has been a topic of great interest in part because it allows us to examine whether there is a critical period for features that are not… read more

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