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Schleef, Eric and Lydia Gabriela Speyer. 2019. Processing ‘Gender-neutral’ Pronouns: A Self-paced Reading Study of Learners of English. Applied Linguistics 37 (5) : 793–815.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
L2-acquisition | language proficiency | native vs. non-native interaction | processing | pronoun | reading | student | university
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal WWW
http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper examines the online processing of singular he and she and singular they by learners of English to discover whether singular they presents a processing problem for non-native speakers (NNSs). A self-paced reading study was conducted with 51 students at an Austrian university.