İngilizce ana dili ve yabancı dil konuşurlarının geçici anlam belirsizliğini çözmede anlama dayalı altulam bilgisi kullanımı

Verb sense is one of the most important factors that determine the subcategorization preferences of verbs. In order to find out whether L1 and L2 English speakers make sense-contingent subcategorization preferences, two sentence production tasks and a real-time reading experiment were conducted. The results of the off-line tasks including polysemous verbs demonstrated that the relationship between sense and subcategorization probabilities influenced L1 and L2 speakers' preferences both in the absence and presence of biasing contexts. These context sentences activated the intended verb senses and the associated subcategorization frames in both groups, with L1 English speakers being more responsive to their presence. Subsequently, in the eye-tracking experiment, target sentences including a temporary ambiguity between a direct object and a sentential complement were used. The results revealed that the reading times of both L1 and L2 speakers were elevated when the complementizer that was absent, and discourse context information did not have a significant effect on the construction of their initial analyses. The processing patterns of L1 and L2 speakers indicated that they initially used the Minimal Attachment heuristic and interpreted the ambiguous noun phrases as the direct objects of the target verbs. Only marginal effects of contexts were found while readers were revising their previous misanalyses. It was also observed that the influence of discourse context information was relatively earlier in L2 processing. As a result, a comparison of the processing patterns of the two groups indicated that L2 processing is slower, less automatic and more demanding.