9 An on-line look at sentence processing in the second language (original) (raw)

On-line sentence processing in the second language In J. Altarriba and R. Herridia (Eds.) Syntactic processing in the second language What are the factors that affect immediate syntactic processing in the second language of bilinguals? How might processing evolve with increasing skill in the second language? Herein, we will review these questions in the light of data from several on-line investigations of syntactic processing in the native and second language of bilinguals with varying levels of second language proficiency. Performance is examined, moreover, for bilinguals of different language backgrounds. The data from these experiments highlight the role of L2 exposure, in line with models based upon linguistic experience.