Exploring relationship of animacy and syntactic cues in processing strategies of second language learners

Muhammad   Farman; Shumaila   shoukat; Rabia   Mamoon

doi:10.71085/sss.04.02.259

Authors

Muhammad Farman Lecturer, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Author
Shumaila shoukat Lecturer, Department of English, Lahore Leads University, Punjab, Pakistan Author
Rabia Mamoon Phd Scholar, Department of Education, Superior University Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.71085/sss.04.02.259

Keywords:

Animacy, Syntactic Cues, Processing Strategies, Second Language Acquisition, Russian

Abstract

This study examines the relationship of animacy and syntactic cues within language processing strategies of second language learners. Animacy is deeply rooted in the cognitive machinery of language and the syntactic organization is sensitive to the animacy of the entities involved. Thus, the aims of the study are to explore how second language learners weight and integrate the syntactic information during a task where they are processing language, and to investigate the interaction between animacy and syntactic cues during their syntactic processing. This study has a descriptive and exploratory nature. It is a competition model, Macwhinney, that is used for the theoretical support, that is a cognitive model, and explains how 2 language learners move through their linguistic possibilities in real-time language processing. A total of fifty childrem (25, Girls and 25 boys) had been selected for this study and it was found that convenient random sampling techniques was used to collect the data and data was analyzed with the help of SPSS IBM version 22. The dominant behavior of using animacy for processing in the study also highlights the enduring and somewhat invariant tendencies of participants to incorporate animacy information into their cognitive processing of language.

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