This study investigated the effects of construction types on Korean-L1 English-L2 learners’ verb–construction integration in online processing by presenting the ditransitive and prepositional dative constructions and manipulating the verb’s association strength within these constructions. Results of a self-paced reading experiment showed that the L2 group spent longer times in the verb–construction integration in the postverbal complement region when processing the ditransitive construction, which is less canonical and highly avoided in the learners’ L1, than when processing the prepositional dative construction, which is more canonical and shares similar structural features with the L1 counterpart. In the following spillover region, L2 learners showed faster reading times as proficiency increased when the verb was strongly associated with the prepositional dative construction. Our findings expand the scope of current models on L2 sentence processing by suggesting that construction types and L2 proficiency may affect the L2 integration of verbal and constructional information.

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语言和结构信息在英语 DATIVE 结构的第二语言处理中的整合

本研究通过呈现双及物和介词与格结构并在这些结构中操纵动词的关联强度来调查结构类型对韩语-L1 英语-L2 学习者在在线处理中动词-结构整合的影响。自定进度阅读实验的结果表明，L2 组在处理双及物结构时在动词后补语区域的动词-构式整合花费了更长的时间，这在学习者的 L1 中比在处理介词与格结构，更规范，与 L1 对应物具有相似的结构特征。在以下溢出区域中，当动词与介词与格结构密切相关时，二语学习者的阅读时间会随着熟练程度的提高而加快。我们的研究结果表明，结构类型和 L2 熟练程度可能会影响 L2 语言和结构信息的整合，从而扩展了当前 L2 句子处理模型的范围。