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Direct linkDussias, Paola E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This study investigates whether proficient second language (L2) speakers of Spanish and English use the same parsing strategies as monolinguals when reading temporarily ambiguous sentences containing a complex noun phrase followed by a relative clause, such as "Peter fell in love with the daughter of the psychologist who studied in California."…
Descriptors: Syntax, Nouns, Figurative Language, Monolingualism
