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Second Language Sentence Processing: Psycholinguistic and Neurobiological Research Paradigms

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Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research

Part of the book series: The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series ((BMBBS,volume 1))

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Along with the introduction of different psycholinguistic and neurobiological research paradigms, we review some outcomes of second language (L2) research. In particular, we discuss the probe recognition, cross-modal lexical priming, self-paced reading, and plausibility judgment tasks, typically used to examine the temporal course of online sentence processing. Moreover, we present neurobiological methods such as behavioral, electro- and magneto-physiological, and hemodynamic measures. In considering the various types of research methods, we review the research on L2 sentence processing from extremely divergent perspectives. Finally, we discuss methodological issues to introduce the status quo of L2 in psycholinguistic and neurobiological domains.

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    Dieter Hillert Ph.D.

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Hillert, D., Nakano, Y. (2016). Second Language Sentence Processing: Psycholinguistic and Neurobiological Research Paradigms. In: Heredia, R., Altarriba, J., Cieślicka, A. (eds) Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research. The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2993-1_10

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