L2 learners’ processing of reconstruction in english: a minimalist account1 L2 learners’ processing of reconstruction in english: a minimalist account1

• Main Author: H. G. Ying
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2008-04-01
• Series: Ilha do Desterro
• Subjects: English Language; English
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/8219

In this introduction, I will first address anaphoric relations and
 Binding Theory. Then I will discuss reconstruction (sentences with a reflexive inside a fronted noun phrase that involves overt movement of a wh-element) from the perspective of Chomsky’s (1993, 1995) Minimalist program, and how reconstruction presents a logical problem of language acquisition for Chinese EFL learners. Finally I will review
 psycholinguistic accounts regarding processing sentences with a fronted wh-phrase and second language research on sentence processing. In this introduction, I will first address anaphoric relations and
 Binding Theory. Then I will discuss reconstruction (sentences with a reflexive inside a fronted noun phrase that involves overt movement of a wh-element) from the perspective of Chomsky’s (1993, 1995) Minimalist program, and how reconstruction presents a logical problem of language acquisition for Chinese EFL learners. Finally I will review
 psycholinguistic accounts regarding processing sentences with a fronted wh-phrase and second language research on sentence processing.