Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur) "Cunnings, Ian"

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    • Determiner-Number Specification and Non-Local Agreement Computation in L1 and L2 Processing 

      Cheng, Yesi; Rothman, Jason; Cunnings, Ian (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-24)
      The present study employed a self-paced reading task in conjunction with concurrent acceptability judgements to examine how similar or diferent English natives and Chinese learners of English are when processing non-local agreement. We also tested how determiner-number specifcation modulates number agreement computation in both native and non-native processing by manipulating number marking with ...

    • DOUBLE-NUMBER MARKING MATTERS for BOTH L1 and L2 PROCESSING of NONLOCAL AGREEMENT SIMILARLY: AN ERP INVESTIGATION 

      Cheng, Yesi; Cunnings, Ian; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-07)
      The present study uses event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine nonlocal agreement processing between native (L1) English speakers and Chinese–English second language (L2) learners, whose L1 lacks number agreement. We manipulated number marking with determiners (the vs. that/these) to see how determiner-specification influences both native and nonnative processing downstream for verbal number ...

    • Formal Linguistic Approaches to Adult Second Language (L2) Acquisition and Processing 

      Rothman, Jason; Bayram, Fatih; Cunnings, Ian; González Alonso, Jorge (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019-06-25)
      The relative conformity with which (typically developing) children attain adult grammatical competence—ultimate attainment—and the similarity in developmental paths along which they progress is remarkable (e.g., Ambridge & Lieven, 2011; Clark, 2003; Guasti, 2002; Synder, 2007). This achievement is, however, so ubiquitous and mundane that we seldom marvel at it. Of course, monolingual adult grammars ...

    • Gender attraction in sentence comprehension 

      González Alonso, Jorge; Cunnings, Ian; Fujita, Hiroki; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-18)
      Agreement attraction, where ungrammatical sentences are perceived as grammatical (e.g., <i>*The key to the cabinets were rusty</i>), has been influential in motivating models of memory access during language comprehension. It is contested, however, whether such effects arise due to a faulty representation of relevant morphosyntactic features, or as a result of memory retrieval. Existing studies of ...

    • Language Dominance Affects Bilingual Performance and Processing Outcomes in Adulthood 

      Puig Mayenco, Eloi; Cunnings, Ian; Bayram, Fatih; Miller, David; Tubau, Susagna; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-26)
      This study examines the role of language dominance (LD) on linguistic competence outcomes in two types of early bilinguals: (i) child L2 learners of Catalan (L1 Spanish-L2 Catalan and, (ii) child Spanish L2 learners (L1 Catalan-L2 Spanish). Most child L2 studies typically focus on the development of the languages during childhood and either focus on L1 development or L2 development. Typically, these ...