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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Discourse connectives (e.g., "but", "so") influence online discourse processing.
  • Discourse relations can also be signaled by syntactic structures, an under-researched area.
  • Processing of alternative discourse signals in a second language is unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the role of syntactic parallelism in processing contrastive discourse relations.
  • Compare native French speakers and English-native non-native French speakers.
  • Examine the interaction between syntactic parallelism and connectives of varying explicitness.

Main Methods:

  • Three self-paced reading experiments.
  • Focus on contrastive relations signaled by syntactic parallelism.
  • Manipulation of connective presence, frequency, and ambiguity.

Main Results:

  • Syntactic parallelism is a significant cue for both native and non-native readers.
  • Non-native speakers recruit parallelism more prominently than native speakers.
  • The effect of parallelism on native speakers is modulated by task difficulty.

Conclusions:

  • Syntactic parallelism is a crucial cue for processing discourse relations, particularly for non-native language learners.
  • Native language processing strategies may differ in their reliance on syntactic cues compared to non-native speakers.
  • Future research should explore the interplay of syntactic and lexical cues in L2 discourse processing.