The Influence of Verb Subcategorization Information and the Complementizer that on Sentence Processing by Japanese Learners of English as a Foreign Language

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• This study investigates the influence of English verb subcategorization information and the complementizer that on sentence processing with Japanese Learners of English as a Foreign Language(JEFL learners). In the experiment, verb subcategorization preferences by participants were assessed through a sentence completion task, and the influence of the preferences on sentence processing was investigated in a self-paced reading task. The results indicated that, comparing the sentence structure with the complementizer that, a garden-path (GP) effect was found in processing syntactically ambiguous sentences both with verbs which tend to be followed by noun phrases (NP) as the direct object (DO-biased verbs) and with verbs which tend to be followed by NP as the subject of a sentential complement (SC-biased verbs). The participants of the higher-proficiency group, however, have shown a tendency to resolve temporary ambiguities when the SC-biased verbs were used, which indicates the verb information can guide learners' on-line sentence processing. The lower-proficiency group, in contrast, seemed to read sentences paying less attention to verb subcategorization information or the complementizer that, and seemed to process sentences at a uniform pace regardless of syntactic structures.

• 2012-10-30

著者

• 山下 淳子

  Nagoya University

• 坂東 貴夫

  Graduate School, Nagoya University

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