PhD student: Shaoyu Wang
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Niels Schiller (LUCL) & Prof. Dr. Theres Grüter (University of Hawai’i)
This project focuses on the processing of lexical-syntactic features during non-native language production. Specifically speaking, this project investigates the effects of classifiers and grammatical gender in L2 production by testing whether speakers of an L1 with a grammatical gender system are sensitive to the classifier system of the L2 and whether speakers of an L1 with a classifier system are sensitive to the grammatical gender system of the L2.
The graph shows mean voltage amplitudes by classifier congruency for centro-posterior channels (CP1, CP2, CP5, CP6, P3, P4, P7, P8, PO3 and PO4) for a Chinese (L2) picture naming task. The time window of interest from 350 ms to 550 ms is highlighted in grey. Negativity is plotted up.