Research at
Gallaudet University
2005 - 2006

Understanding Sentences in Two Languages

Status: Ongoing Begin date: August, 2003 End date: No set date

Description

Using a moving window technique and an eye tracker, the researchers are comparing how native English speakers and second language learners of English process certain embedded interrogative structures during real time reading tasks. The main question is whether the previously observed asymmetry in the processing of object extractions versus subject extractions out of embedded structures is due to a competence or to a performance issue. The impact of language proficiency and working memory capacity on how these structures are processed is also examined.

Investigators