Hi,
Thanks for your interest in our work (B83 "Listen my story": ERP sensitivity to argument structure violations in L2).
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Short abstract:
How do verbs of different argument structures interact with each other in
bilinguals during online sentence processing? We hypothesized that native
language argument structure knowledge is particularly difficult for L2
speakers to override online. We constructed sentences with verbs of
mismatched argument structures in L1 Mandarin and L2 English (*My sister
listened the music*). The results supported the hypothesis: While L1
speakers showed a prominent P600 effect to argument structure violations,
the L2 showed a null effect, and poorer behavioral sensitivity. Our finding
suggests L2 speakers do not have immediate access to additional syntactic
details required for native-like verb-argument computation.