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    "pk": 26168,
    "title": "The Comprehension of English Garden-path Sentences byMandarin and Korean Learners of English as a Second Language",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "How the properties of a first language (Mandarin, Korean)influence the comprehension of sentences in a secondlanguage (English) was investigated in a series of self-pacedreading time studies. Native Mandarin- and Korean-speakinglearners of English were compared with native Englishspeakers on how they resolved a temporary ambiguity aboutthe relationship between a verb and the noun following it in asentence (e.g., The club members understood [that] thebylaws would be applied to everyone.). Frequency biases ofverbs’ subcategorization structure (direct-object-bias vs.sentential-complement-bias) was manipulated in Experiment1. Results showed that L1-Mandarin learners of L2-Englishwere able to use both the verb bias and the complementizercue, and their usage of these cues was not modulated byproficiency. L1-Mandarin learners’ use of the verb bias cuecontrasts with previously reported findings with L1-Koreanlearners of L2-English, who showed sensitivity to verb biasonly in higher proficiency learners (Lee, Lu, & Garnsey,2013). The difference between L1-Mandarin and L1-Koreanlearners suggests that L1 word order (Mandarin & English,SVO; Korean SOV) influences how quickly L2 learners learnword-order-dependent cues about structures in the L2.Experiment 2 added plausibility manipulation (e.g., The clubmembers understood the bylaws/the pool...). Neither thenative speakers or the L2 groups (L1-Mandarin L2-English &L1-Korean L2-English) used plausibility to disambiguatesentences, challenging the claims that L2 learners rely moreheavily on plausibility than syntactic cues during sentenceprocessing.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "verb bias; plausibility; garden-path sentences"
        },
        {
            "word": "L2sentence processing"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58x1t7v6",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Zhiying",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Qian",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Illinois",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Eun-Kyung",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lee",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Yonsei University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Dora",
            "middle_name": "Hsin-Yi",
            "last_name": "Lu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "National Taipei University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Susan",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Garnsey",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Illinois",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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