The Influence of Syntactic Complexity on L2 prediction

doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/GDJUB

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Subject: The Influence of Syntactic Complexity on L2 prediction Abstract: This study investigated to what extent L2 prediction is modulated by syntactic complexity of sentences. In an eye-tracking study using a visual world paradigm, two groups of Chinese-L1 and English-L2 speakers were randomly assigned to the simple sentence condition (e.g., The mother will drink/drop the milk) or complex sentence condition (e.g., I see the boy of the mother that will drink/drop the milk). The results showed that L2 participants made significant predictions regardless of syntactic complexity, but their predictions during complex sentence processing was 60 ms delayed, suggesting that cognitive load driven by syntactic complexity may mediate L2 prediction.

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