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Pervasiveness of shallow processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2006

Irina A. Sekerina  and
Patricia J. Brooks
Irina A. Sekerina
Affiliation:
College of Staten Island
Patricia J. Brooks
Affiliation:
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Clahsen and Felser (CF) offer a novel explanation for the qualitative differences in language processing often observed between adult first language (L1) speakers and second language (L2) learners. They argue that, although L2 learners are successful in drawing on lexical, morphological, and pragmatic sources of information, they underutilize syntactic structure, which results in shallower and less detailed processing than that of native speakers.

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Commentaries
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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 84 - 88
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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