Abstract
Based on the Competition Model, the present study investigated how adult monolinguals and
bilinguals incorporate the context cue in assigning the agent role vis-à-vis intrasentential
cues (animacy and word order). The subjects were L1 and L2 speakers of Chinese and English.
The results show that both Chinese and English monolingual controls paid less attention to
context than to intrasentential cues that have been identified as determinants for Chinese and
English sentence processing. Nevertheless, context was found to play a bigger role in Chinese
than in English. As for L2 learners, the main effect of context was significant in all groups of
learners of Chinese and English. However, the Chinese EFL learners relied on context to a greater
extent than did the English CFL learners when processing their respective L2.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Psychology,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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