L1 and L2 syntactic ambiguity resolution of relative clauses
College
Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education
Department/Unit
Dept of English and Applied Linguistics
Document Type
Article
Source Title
Modern Journal of Studies in English Language Teaching and Literature
Volume
3
Issue
1
Publication Date
6-2021
Abstract
Syntactic ambiguity resolution is a cognitive mechanism that interacts with a range oflinguistic skills vital to comprehension. Research in this area has, for most of the time, involved European languages. Meanwhile, there is scant literature on a vast range of languages that possess distinct typological features that may hold an important role in unique and underexplored syntactic processes. Basing upon the Garden-Path Model, this study identifies attachment preference in two less explored languages, Tagalog and Kinaray-a, and in L2 English through relative clause parsing experiments. This also attempts to determine whether adjectival modification of noun phrases has a relationship with attachment preference scores. Chi-square tests of independence were conducted on experimental data and revealed a minimal relationship between select types of relative clauses according to adjectival modification and attachment preference. Data show contrasting patterns between Tagalog and Kinaray-a groups, where the former marginally lean towards low attachment (N2) and the latter towards high attachment (NI). Similar to Kinaraya L2 English attachment preference takes the N 1 path, a contradiction to past findings on L 1 English.
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Recommended Citation
Rentillo, P. A. (2021). L1 and L2 syntactic ambiguity resolution of relative clauses. Modern Journal of Studies in English Language Teaching and Literature, 3 (1) Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11110
Disciplines
English Language and Literature | South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
Keywords
Tagalog language—Syntax; Kinaray-a language—Syntax; English language—Philippines—Syntax; Tagalog language—Relative clauses; Kinaray-a language—Relative clauses; English language—Philippines—Relative clauses
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