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Publication Date: 2024-Oct
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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.
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Prediction, Learning Processes, Language Proficiency, Native Language, Language Processing, Reading Processes, Cues, Syntax, Transfer of Training, Semantics, Majors (Students), Second Language Instruction, College Students, Foreign Countries, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages)
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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