TY - JOUR
T1 - Crosslinguistic influence in bilingual morphosyntactic processing
T2 - Effects of language-common, language-contrasting, and language-specific information
AU - Kim, Hyunwoo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This study investigated how second language (L2) learners process the Korean numeral quantifier construction by using transferable and nontransferable information. For Chinese-speaking learners of Korean (Chinese group), agreement between an honorific numeral quantifier and a noun in Korean constitutes transferable information in the canonical structure and nontransferable L2-specific information in the scrambled structure. For Japanese-speaking learners of Korean (Japanese group), this information gives rise to crosslinguistic conflicts in both structures. The results from a self-paced reading task showed that the Japanese group did not exhibit sensitivity to grammatical errors in both structures, whereas the Chinese group detected the agreement violation in the canonical but not in the scrambled structure. When a context sentence was provided to license scrambling in the test sentence, however, another group of Chinese-speaking learners of Korean showed sensitivity to the violation. These findings suggest varying degrees of crosslinguistic influence in L2 sentence processing.
AB - This study investigated how second language (L2) learners process the Korean numeral quantifier construction by using transferable and nontransferable information. For Chinese-speaking learners of Korean (Chinese group), agreement between an honorific numeral quantifier and a noun in Korean constitutes transferable information in the canonical structure and nontransferable L2-specific information in the scrambled structure. For Japanese-speaking learners of Korean (Japanese group), this information gives rise to crosslinguistic conflicts in both structures. The results from a self-paced reading task showed that the Japanese group did not exhibit sensitivity to grammatical errors in both structures, whereas the Chinese group detected the agreement violation in the canonical but not in the scrambled structure. When a context sentence was provided to license scrambling in the test sentence, however, another group of Chinese-speaking learners of Korean showed sensitivity to the violation. These findings suggest varying degrees of crosslinguistic influence in L2 sentence processing.
KW - Korean numeral quantifier
KW - L2 sentence processing
KW - crosslinguistic influence
KW - self-paced reading
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85190242482&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85190242482&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1366728924000269
DO - 10.1017/S1366728924000269
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85190242482
SN - 1366-7289
JO - Bilingualism
JF - Bilingualism
ER -