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题目：In?uence of Second Language Pro?ciency and Syntactic Structure Similarities on the Sensitivity and Processing of English Passive Sentence in Late Chinese-English Bilinguists: An ERP Study
报告人：常欣老师
时间：2016年3月9日（周三）1：00pm-3：00pm
地点：学院215


Title：In?uence of Second Language Pro?ciency and Syntactic Structure Similarities on the Sensitivity and Processing of English Passive Sentence in Late Chinese-English Bilinguists: An ERP Study

To investigate the in?uence of L2 pro?ciency and syntactic similarity on English passive sentence processing, the present ERP study asked 40 late Chinese-English bilinguals (27 females and 13 males, mean age=23.88) with high or intermediate L2 pro?ciency to read the sentences carefully and to indicate for each sentence whether or not it was correct. Sentences were classi?ed into literal translation sentences with the similar structure between the two languages and free translation sentences with the different structure. Behavioral data showed: shorter reaction times and higher accuracy rates occurred in the high-pro?cient group than those in the intermediate-pro?cient group; shorter reaction times and higher accuracy rates were observed in literal translation sentences than those in free translation sentences. ERP results showed literal translation sentences elicited an enhanced P200 and P600 while free translation sentences elicited a larger N400. The high-pro?cient group showed a larger P600 in syntactic violations and double violations while the intermediate-pro?cient group evoked an enhanced N400 in semantic violations and double violations. Literal translation sentences caused a larger P200 while free translation sentences elicited more negative-going N400. Behavioral and ERP data revealed the in?uence of L2 pro?ciency and syntactic similarity on L2 sentence processing, and L2 pro?ciency played a predominate role.