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Morphosyntactic Processing in Late Second-Language Learners
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The goal of the present study was to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of second-language (L2) morphosyntactic processing in highly proficient late learners of an L2 with long exposure to the L2 environment. ERPs were collected from 22 English–Spanish late learners while they read sentences in which morphosyntactic features of the L2 present or not present in the first language (number and gender agreement, respectively) were manipulated at two different sentence positions—within and across phrases. The results for a control group of age-matched native-speaker Spanish participants included an ERP pattern of LAN-type early negativity followed by P600 effect in response to both agreement violations and for both sentence positions. The late L2 learner results included a similar pattern, consisting of early negativity followed by P600, in the first sentence position (within-phrase agreement violations) but only P600 effects in the second sentence position (across-phrase agreement violation), as well as significant amplitude and onset latency differences between the gender and the number violation effects in both sentence positions. These results reveal that highly proficient learners can show electrophysiological correlates during L2 processing that are qualitatively similar to those of native speakers, but the results also indicate the contribution of factors such as age of acquisition and transfer processes from first language to L2.
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- Authors
- Dowens, M. G., Vergara, M., Barber, H. A., & Carreiras, M.
- Venue
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- 2010-08-01
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1870-1887
- ISSN
- 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1530-8898
- OpenAlex
- W2109286239
- Cited by
- 251
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 4.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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