Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Part I. Introduction
5. Second language processing and parsing 3
6. Part II. Relative clauses and wh -movement
7. Relative clause attachment preferences of Turkish L2 speakers of English 27
8. Evidence of syntactic constraints in the processing of wh -movement 65
9. Constraints on L2 learners’ processing of wh-dependencies 87
10. Part III. Gender and number
11. The effects of linear distance and working memory on the processing of gender agreement in Spanish 113
12. Feature assembly in early stages of L2 acquisition 135
13. Part IV. Subjects and objects
14. Second language processing in Japanese scrambled sentences 159
15. Second language gap processing of Japanese scrambling under a Simpler Syntax account 177
16. The processing of subject-object ambiguities by English and Dutch L2 learners of German 207
17. Connections between processing, production and placement 231
18. Part V. Phonology and lexicon
19. The exploitation of fine phonetic detail in the processing of L2 French 259
20. Translation ambiguity 281
21. Part VI. Prosody and context
22. Reading aloud in two languages 297
23. Near-nativelike processing of contrastive focus in L2 French 321
24. Author index 345
25. Subject index 349