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Exploring the Cause of English Pronoun Gender Errors by Chinese Learners of English: Evidence from the Self-paced Reading Paradigm

Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2015-12, Vol.44 (6), p.733-747 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 ;Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 ;ISSN: 0090-6905 ;EISSN: 1573-6555 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10936-014-9314-6 ;PMID: 25178817

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Title:
Exploring the Cause of English Pronoun Gender Errors by Chinese Learners of English: Evidence from the Self-paced Reading Paradigm
Author: Dong, Yanping ; Wen, Yun ; Zeng, Xiaomeng ; Ji, Yifei
Subjects: Adult ; Antecedents ; Applied Linguistics ; Asians ; Behavioral Science and Psychology ; Bilingualism ; Brain research ; China ; Chinese ; Chinese languages ; Cognition & reasoning ; Cognitive Psychology ; Computer Assisted Instruction ; Dialogs (Language) ; English ; English (Second Language) ; English as a second language learning ; English Language Learners ; Error analysis ; Error Analysis (Language) ; Experimental psychology ; Female ; Females ; Followup Studies ; Form Classes (Languages) ; Gender ; Gender Differences ; Grammar ; Humans ; Language Processing ; Language Research ; Language Usage ; Learning ; Linguistics ; Male ; Males ; Multilingualism ; Native Language ; Native Speakers ; Nouns ; Oral English ; Pictorial Stimuli ; Pronouns ; Psycholinguistics ; Psychology ; Reading ; Reading Processes ; Romance Languages ; Second Language Instruction ; Second Language Learning ; Semantics ; Sentences ; Spoken language ; Teaching Methods ; Young Adult
Is Part Of: Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2015-12, Vol.44 (6), p.733-747
Description: To locate the underlying cause of biological gender errors of oral English pronouns by proficient Chinese-English learners, two self-paced reading experiments were conducted to explore whether the reading time for each ‘he’ or ‘she’ that matched its antecedent was shorter than that in the corresponding mismatch situation, as with native speakers of English. The critical manipulation was to see whether highlighting the gender information of an antecedent with a human picture would make a difference. The results indicate that such manipulation did make a difference. Since oral Chinese does not distinguish ‘he’ and ‘she’, the findings suggest that Chinese speakers probably do not usually process biological gender for linguistic purposes and the mixed use of ‘he’ and ‘she’ is probably a result of deficient processing of gender information in the conceptualizer. Theoretical and pedagogical implications are discussed.
Publisher: New York: Springer US
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0090-6905
EISSN: 1573-6555
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-014-9314-6
PMID: 25178817
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Exploring the Cause of English Pronoun Gender Errors by Chinese Learners of English: Evidence from the Self-paced Reading Paradigm

Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 ;Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 ;ISSN: 0090-6905 ;EISSN: 1573-6555 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10936-014-9314-6 ;PMID: 25178817

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