Interference in native and non-native sentence processing

Cunnings, I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5318-0186 (2017) Interference in native and non-native sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20 (4). pp. 712-721. ISSN 1469-1841 doi: 10.1017/S1366728916001243

Abstract/Summary

The primary aim of my target article was to demonstrate how careful consideration of the working memory operations that underlie successful language comprehension is crucial to our understanding of the similarities and differences between native (L1) and non-native (L2) sentence processing. My central claims were that highly proficient L2 speakers construct similarly specified syntactic parses as L1 speakers, and that differences between L1 and L2 processing can be characterised in terms of L2 speakers being more prone to interference during memory retrieval operations. In explaining L1/L2 differences in this way, I argued a primary source of differences between L1 and L2 processing lies in how different populations of speakers weight cues that guide memory retrieval.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/68744
Identification Number/DOI	10.1017/S1366728916001243
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Language and Cognition
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
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