The Effect of Ambiguity Awareness on Second Language Learners’ Prosodic Disambiguation

Three tasks were reported to examine the effect of ambiguity awareness on Chinese-speaking English learners’ use of prosody in resolving prepositional-phrase attachment ambiguity. In the first (Task 1) and second (Task 2) tasks, listeners were not informed of the syntactic ambiguity. In the third ta...

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Main Authors: Yuanyuan Zhang, Hongwei Ding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
L2
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573520/full