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ERIC Number: EJ1447265
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Oct
Pages: 29
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0267-6583
EISSN: EISSN-1477-0326
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Dutch-Mandarin Learners' Online Use of Syntactic Cues to Anticipate Mass vs. Count Interpretations
Panpan Yao; David Hall; Hagit Borer; Linnaea Stockall
Second Language Research, v40 n4 p803-831 2024
It remains unclear whether late second language learners (L2ers) can acquire sufficient knowledge about unique-to-L2 constructions through implicit learning to build anticipations during real-time processing. To tackle this question, we conducted a visual world paradigm experiment to investigate high-proficiency late first-language Dutch second-language Mandarin Chinese learners' online processing of syntactic cues to count vs. mass interpretations in Chinese which are unique-to-L2 and never explicitly taught. The results showed that late Dutch-Mandarin learners were sensitive to a mass-biased syntactic cue in real-time processing, and exhibited some native-like anticipatory behaviour. These findings indicate that late L2ers can acquire unique-to-L2 constructions through implicit learning, and can automatically use this knowledge to make predictions.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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