23.4869, Diss: Applied Ling/ Psycholing: Cokal: 'The online and offline Processing of this, that and it'

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Subject: 23.4869, Diss: Applied Ling/ Psycholing: Cokal: 'The online and offline Processing of this, that and it'

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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:02:34
From: derya cokal [deryacokal at gmail.com]
Subject: The online and offline Processing of this, that and it by native Speakers of English and by Turkish non-native Speakers of English

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Institution: Middle East Technical University 
Program: Foreign Language Education 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2012 

Author: Derya Cokal

Dissertation Title: The online and offline Processing of this, that and it by
native Speakers of English and by Turkish non-native
Speakers of English 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Psycholinguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Dr. Patrick Sturt
Prof. Sukriye Ruhi
Prof. Wolf Konig
Prof. Fernanda Ferreira

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis explores the online processing of this, it and that in English 
and compares the processing strategies of Turkish non-native 
speakers (NNSs) with those of native speakers of English (NSs) by 
running three independent groups of online reading and norming 
experiments. The first group of eye-tracking experiments, together with 
a corpus study, test the deictic access of this and that to the left (earlier 
clause) and right (immediately preceding clause) frontiers. The results 
indicated that (1) with both this and that there is a preference for 
events on the right frontier as antecedents, although this preference 
was greater for that than for this; (2) the left frontier could provide 
antecedents more frequently for this than for that; and (3) the reliance 
of existing theories of textual deixis on an analogy with spatial deixis in 
spoken discourse may be flawed. However, NNSs were shown to 
employ a strategy of analogy with spatial deixis in processing textual 
deixis. The second group of experiments tested the antecedent 
preferences (proposition vs. noun phrase) of it, this and that. In online 
reading, NSs did not show strong preferences, whereas NNSs 
performed form-function mappings. Like NSs, NNSs used shallow or 
‘flexible’ processing. Relying on the interface hypothesis (1), it is 
argued that NNSs show a residue of L1 and ‘residual indeterminacy' at 
the level of discourse. A ‘good enough’ approach (2) can explain the 
shallow processing of NSs. The third group of experiments tested the 
role of noun phrases (distant NP vs. recent NP) in the antecedent 
preferences of this and it. In contrast to the experiments above, NSs 
and NNSs had the same preferences but used different processing 
strategies. The scale from uninterpretable features to interpretable 
features is proposed to explain different performances across 
experiments.






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