Research in second language processing and parsing / edited by Bill VanPatten, Jill Jegerski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Part I. Introduction; Second language processing and parsing; Part II. Relative clauses and wh-movement; Relative clause attachment preferences of Turkish L2 speakers of English; Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh-movement; Constraints on L2 learners' processing of wh-dependencies; Part III. Gender and number; The effects of linear distance and working memory on the processing of gender agreement in Spanish.

This volume is the first dedicated to the growing field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. The fourteen papers in this volume offer cutting-edge research using a number of different languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, English) and structures (e.g., relative clauses, wh-gaps, gender, number) to examine various issues in second language processing: first language influence, whether or not non-natives can achieve native-like processing, the roles of context and prosody, the effects of working memory, and others. The researchers include both e.

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