Does the amount of English exposure affect the size of the Grammaticality Illusion?

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2017-07-31
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This study investigates the influence of the amount of exposure to English on the missing-VP2 effect, a grammaticality illusion. It was expected that the size of the effect gets bigger when the amount of exposure to English increases. Based on study background and English exposure, participants were placed in either a Dutch or English language group. Eye Tracking was used to measure reading times on double centred-embedded relative clauses, which were shown in four conditions. The task was to read the sentences and occasionally answer a content question. The results showed that the grammaticality illusion only occurred in semantically neutral sentences. There was no significant difference between the two language groups, and no clear effect of exposure. However, a trend was visible in the data in which a higher amount of English exposure could increase the size of the grammaticality effect with a bigger sample size.
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