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Publication details [#66248]

Kaan, Edith, Esther Álvarez de la Fuente, Raquel Fernández Fuertes, Corinne Futch and Sonja Mujcinovic. 2019. Adaptation to syntactic structures in native and nonnative sentence comprehension. Applied Psycholinguistics 40 (1) : 3–27.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
adaptation | ambiguity | error | interpretation | language processing | native speaker | reading | second language acquisition
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/ 

Annotation

This inquiry tested whether experiencing an error is sufficient for adaptation. It compared native English speakers and second language (L2) learners’ processing of, and adaptation to, two types of provisionally ambiguous structures that were resolved toward the nonpreferred interpretation.