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The additive use of prosody and morphosyntax in L2 German.
- Source :
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition; May2023, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p348-369, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This study investigates whether the use of prosodic cues during instruction facilitates the processing of German accusative case markers. Two groups of third semester L1 English learners of L2 German completed Processing Instruction (PI) with aural input: Learners in the PI+P group heard sentences that included focused prosodic cues; learners in the PI group heard sentences with monotone prosody. The effects of training were assessed through an offline comprehension task, a written production task, and an online self-paced reading (SPR) task. The results for the offline tasks showed that the groups were similar with respect to their offline comprehension and production. The SPR task showed that both groups used case markers to interpret word order online to some extent; however, only the PI+P group did so in all conditions. These results suggest that prosody does play a role in (morpho)syntactic processing, and that covert activation of prosodic structures can facilitate processing during online reading tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02722631
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163892724
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263122000092