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    "pk": 2489,
    "title": "L2 French Learners’ Processing of Object Clitics: Data from the Classroom",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The purpose of this study was to assess whether the well-documented paucity of object clitics in L2 French production reflects difficulties learners have comprehending these forms in classroom input. To this end, an aural French-English translation task was used to determine the extent to which university-level L2 learners of French (N=152) were able to process and encode the meaning of the object clitics me, te, la, l’, les, lui, leur, y and en. An analysis of the translations revealed variation in performance across clitic types (19-75% accuracy) and as a function of learners’ proficiency level and educational background. There was a positive relationship between L2 proficiency and clitic processing. Post-French immersion learners were better able to process and encode clitics than their post-core French peers. As a group, the learners were only 54% accurate, with their mistranslations of object clitics indicating incomplete use of gender, number, animacy and case markings to link these forms to their co-referents. An under-reliance on animacy and agreement cues by these L2 learners suggests the need for explicit instruction on the importance of syntactic and discourse-pragmatic information in clitic comprehension.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "French as a Second Language"
        },
        {
            "word": "Pronouns"
        },
        {
            "word": "Clitics"
        },
        {
            "word": "translation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Listening Comprehension"
        },
        {
            "word": "Language Processing"
        },
        {
            "word": "Applied Linguistics"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Article",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v37r73q",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Valerie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wust",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "North Carolina State University at Raleigh",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2009-06-03T12:30:00+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2009-06-03T12:30:00+05:30",
    "date_published": "2010-02-28T13:30:00+05:30",
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            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2489/galley/1522/download/"
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    ]
}