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September 16, 2025Applied Psycholinguistics

Understanding L1 and L2 reference comprehension in speech: focusing referents and pronouns

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RHRegina HertAAAnja ArnholdJJJuhani Järvikivi

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Overview

Experiments assessed how prosodic features influence pronoun comprehension in German L1 and L2 speakers, emphasizing varying sensitivities.

Key Points

  • L2 speakers showed sensitivity to different functions of subject pronouns, affecting their referential choice.
  • Both L1 and L2 speakers preferred the subject referent for subject and object pronouns, indicating shared processing patterns.
  • Grammatical role and focus marking influenced pronoun interpretation, but L2 speakers weighted these factors differently than L1 speakers.
  • The study highlights differences in sensitivity to grammatical role and information structure among L1 and L2 speaker groups.

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Hert et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d4507331b076d99fa57a0bhttps://doi.org/10.1017/s0142716425100143
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