A Study on the NP Attachment Preference of Tagalog-Dominant and Chinese-Dominant Bilinguals

• Main Authors: Tan-De Ramos, Jennifer, Zhang, Jinpei
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Disambiguation ; Locality Principle ; Syntax Transfer ; Principle of Recency ; Predicate Proximity ; Lexical-semantic Information
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/jeal/vol1/iss1/8; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/jeal/article/1007/viewcontent/RA_8.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study aims to investigate the Noun Phrase (NP) attachment preference of English L2 learners in the Philippines when they process ambiguous relative clauses. To this end, 29 bilinguals at a private university in Manila were recruited, and a language background survey was conducted. Based on the...