| Presentation | 2019-07-27 [Poster Presentation] L2 processing of complex scope ambiguity in English Yukiko Koizumi, Eri Shoji, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Studies show that native perceivers can employ various factors in resolving structural ambiguities. In the case of the English ‘not-because’ scope ambiguity, even though the usual dispreference for the low attachment of the because-clause with respect to negation appears to violate the general recency-based parsing principle, a previous study showed that this difficulty can be neutralized when provided with non-structural cues such as prosody and/or pragmatics for native perceivers. A subsequent study on the same experimental protocol on the advanced-level L2 learners indicated that this dispreference was more persistent for learners, suggesting that the learners may not be able to access such cues sufficiently. The present study reports the results of the experiment on the beginner-intermediate L2 learners of English. The modified protocol with easier materials and an extra training session seemed to help the learners’ comprehension, though it was not sufficient for them to access the cues in the way that the native perceivers did. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | L2 Processing / Scope Ambiguity Resolution / Prosody / Pragmatics / Self-Paced Reading |
| Paper # | TL2019-26 |
| Date of Issue | 2019-07-20 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2019/7/27(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Hirao Seminar House, Konan University |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Human Language Processing and Learning |
| Chair | Hiroshi Sano(Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) |
| Vice Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.) |
| Secretary | Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.) |
| Assistant | Nobuyuki Jincho(Miidas Co. Ltd.) / Akinori Takada(Ferris Univ.) / Akio Ishikawa(KDDI Research) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | ENG-JTITLE |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | [Poster Presentation] L2 processing of complex scope ambiguity in English |
| Sub Title (in English) | Can perceivers learn to access non-structural cues? |
| Keyword(1) | L2 Processing |
| Keyword(2) | Scope Ambiguity Resolution |
| Keyword(3) | Prosody |
| Keyword(4) | Pragmatics |
| Keyword(5) | Self-Paced Reading |
| 1st Author's Name | Yukiko Koizumi |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Yamagata University(Yamagata Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Eri Shoji |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Yamagata University(Yamagata Univ.) |
| Date | 2019-07-27 |
| Paper # | TL2019-26 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.119 |
| Number (no) | TL-151 |
| Page | pp.pp.71-75(TL), |
| #Pages | 5 |
| Date of Issue | 2019-07-20 (TL) |