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Jessen, Anna; Felser, Claudia – Second Language Research, 2019
The present study used event related potentials (ERPs) to investigate how native (L1) German-speaking second-language (L2) learners of English process sentences containing filler-gap dependencies such as "Bill liked the house (women) that Bob built some ornaments for __ at his workplace." Using an experimental design which allowed us to…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Verbs, Native Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Felser, Claudia; Marinis, Theodore; Clahsen, Harald – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2003
In this study, we investigate children's and adults' relative clause attachment preferences in sentences such as "The student photographed the fan of the actress who was looking happy." Twenty-nine 6- to 7-year-old monolingual English children and 37 adult native speakers of English participated both in an auditory questionnaire study and in an…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Sentences, Nouns, Native Speakers