Info for readers
Info for authors
Info for editors
Info for libraries
Order form
Shopping cart
Laurent Dekydtspotter and A. Katherine Miller
113-124 (complete pdf)
The authors discuss the results of a priming experiment investigating evidence of reactivation of referents triggered by traces at the clause edge in cases of successive movement. Respondents classified pictures as human or animal, while reading sentences aloud. Modulo working memory capacities, pictures that match concomitantly reactivated referents should be classified more quickly. Native speakers of English indeed produced clause-edge facilitations that suggest movement traces. Learners of English produced clause-edge inhibitions that seem indicative of the presence of intermediate traces, when activation mechanisms are taken into consideration.
Published in:
Proceedings of the 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2009)
edited by Melissa Bowles, Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul, and Annie Tremblay
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-434-8 library binding
v+294 pages
publication date: 2009
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA