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A statistical modeling of the correlation between island effects and working-memory capacity for l2 learners
- Authors
- Kim, Euhee; Park, Myung-Kwan
- Issue Date
- Oct-2015
- Publisher
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Citation
- 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2015, pp 422 - 430
- Pages
- 9
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- Journal Title
- 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2015
- Start Page
- 422
- End Page
- 430
- Abstract
- The cause of island effects has evoked considerable debate within syntax and other fields of linguistics. The two competing approaches stand out: the grammatical analysis; and the working-memory (WM)-based processing analysis. In this paper we report three experiments designed to test one of the premises of the WM-based processing analysis: that the strength of island effects should vary as a function of individual differences in WM capacity. The results show that island effects present even for L2 learners are more likely attributed to grammatical constraints than to limited processing resources.
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- Park, Myung Kwan
- College of Humanities (Division of English Language and Literature)