Abstract
The aim of this study was to delve into how during online sentence comprehension, Korean L2 English learners cope with the interaction of two kinds of syntactic dependency, wh-filler-gap (WG) and reflexive-antecedent (RA) dependencies. Specifically, this study inspected whether such Korean L2 learners take as the antecedent for a reflexive the grammatically-licensing, local wh-gap in the embedded infinitive or finite clause. Experiments 1 and 2 in this study saw effects from gender mismatch between the wh-filler/ its gap and a reflexive, but not between the simply linearly-closer DP and the reflexive. These results provide quite robust evidence that Korean L2 learners of English in principle take a grammar-based approach to the interaction at issue.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2905-2920 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Asia Life Sciences |
| Volume | SUPPLEMENT 15 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 1 Sep 2018 |
Keywords
- Gender mismatch effect
- Reflexive-antecedent dependency
- Structure-(in)sensitive
- Wh-filler-gap dependency