Discourse comprehension in L2: Making sense of what is not explicitly said
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- dc.contributor.author Foucart, Aliceca
- dc.contributor.author Romero Rivas, Carlos, 1986-ca
- dc.contributor.author Gort, Bernharda Lottieca
- dc.contributor.author Costa, Albert, 1970-ca
- dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-20T10:24:06Z
- dc.date.available 2018-07-20T10:24:06Z
- dc.date.issued 2016
- dc.description.abstract Using ERPs, we tested whether L2 speakers can integrate multiple sources of information (e.g., semantic, pragmatic information) during discourse comprehension. We presented native speakers and L2 speakers with three-sentence scenarios in which the final sentence was highly causally related, intermediately related, or causally unrelated to its context; its interpretation therefore required simple or complex inferences. Native speakers revealed a gradual N400-like effect, larger in the causally unrelated condition than in the highly related condition, and falling in-between in the intermediately related condition, replicating previous results. In the crucial intermediately related condition, L2 speakers behaved like native speakers, however, showing extra processing in a later time-window. Overall, the results show that, when reading, L2 speakers are able to process information from the local context and prior information (e.g., world knowledge) to build global coherence, suggesting that they process different sources of information to make inferences online during discourse comprehension, like native speakers.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by grants from the Spanish Government (PSI2011-23033, CONSOLIDER-INGENIO2010 CSD2007-00048, ECO2011-25295, and ECO2010-09555-E), from the Catalan Government (SGR 2009-1521) and from the Grup de Recerca en Neurociència Cognitiva (GRNC) - 2014SGR1210. It has also received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 613465.
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- dc.identifier.citation Foucart A, Romero-Rivas C, Gort BL, Costa A. Discourse comprehension in L2: Making sense of what is not explicitly said. Brain Lang. 2016;163:32-41. DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2016.09.001
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.09.001
- dc.identifier.issn 0093-934X
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35211
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Elsevierca
- dc.relation.ispartof Brain and Language. 2016;163:32-41
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/613465
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2011-23033
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/ECO2011-25295
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/ECO2010-09555-E
- dc.rights © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.09.001
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- dc.subject.keyword Bilingualism
- dc.subject.keyword Discourse comprehension
- dc.subject.keyword Causal inferences
- dc.subject.keyword ERPs
- dc.title Discourse comprehension in L2: Making sense of what is not explicitly saidca
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