The role of structural preferences and animacy cues on dative sentence parsing in L2
Published online on July 07, 2026
Abstract
Second Language Research, Ahead of Print.
Real-time sentence comprehension can pose a challenge for second-language (L2) speakers due to limited exposure to certain syntactic structures. While English allows dative alternation between double object (DO) and prepositional object (PO) constructions,...
Real-time sentence comprehension can pose a challenge for second-language (L2) speakers due to limited exposure to certain syntactic structures. While English allows dative alternation between double object (DO) and prepositional object (PO) constructions,...