L2 learners’ processing of reconstruction in english: a minimalist account1
In this introduction, I will first address anaphoric relations and Binding Theory. Then I will discuss reconstruction (sentences with a reflexive inside a fronted noun phrase that involves overt movement of a wh-element) from the perspective of Chomsky’s (1993, 1995) Minimalist program, and how rec...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
1998-01-01
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| Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/8219 |
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| Summary: | In this introduction, I will first address anaphoric relations and
Binding Theory. Then I will discuss reconstruction (sentences with a reflexive inside a fronted noun phrase that involves overt movement of a wh-element) from the perspective of Chomsky’s (1993, 1995) Minimalist program, and how reconstruction presents a logical problem of language acquisition for Chinese EFL learners. Finally I will review
psycholinguistic accounts regarding processing sentences with a fronted wh-phrase and second language research on sentence processing. |
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| ISSN: | 0101-4846 2175-8026 |