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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Pronouns can link to quantifier phrases (QPs) outside their surface scope, enabling "telescoping" readings.
  • Non-native speakers are hypothesized to struggle with these non-isomorphic syntax-semantics mappings.
  • Empirical evidence from processing studies remains limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate native and non-native German speakers' ability to derive telescoping readings.
  • To examine real-time processing differences in linking pronouns to non-c-commanding QPs within relative clauses.

Main Methods:

  • An eye-movement monitoring experiment was conducted.
  • An offline questionnaire was administered to assess comprehension.
  • Participants included native and non-native speakers of German.

Main Results:

  • Both groups successfully derived telescoping readings offline.
  • Native speakers showed incremental processing of telescoping dependencies.
  • Non-native speakers relied on alternative antecedents during real-time processing.

Conclusions:

  • Native and non-native speakers differ in the real-time computation of scope-shifted representations.
  • Non-native comprehenders face challenges in incrementally deriving complex semantic dependencies.
  • Discourse prominence influences antecedent selection in non-native language processing.