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Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium edited by Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio ISBN 1-57473-413-X library binding vi + 341 pages publication date: 2006 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Paul A. Malovrh L2 Sentence Processing of Spanish OVS Word Order and Direct Object Pronouns: An Analysis of Contextual Constraints 169-179 (complete pdf) This paper examines the L2 sentence-level processing of Spanish OVS word order and direct object pronouns. Previous research has identified a variety of linguistic and pragmatic factors that promote the employment of a psycholinguistic processing strategy based on word order. However, previous research has not investigated how specific factors work together to predict particular strategies. Therefore, the present study utilizes a counterbalanced research design to isolate specific experimental conditions, and identifies a logistic regression model that predicts processing strategies among L2 learners of Spanish. Furthermore, analyses indicate that structural morphological cues have more predictive power than extra-linguistic pragmatic knowledge on nativelike form-meaning connections among L2 learners. |