Marina Sokolova

Norwegian University of Science and Technology | NTNU · Department of Language and Literature

Aims and objectives The study investigates human sentence processing and argues that information from multiple sources is considered equally in native and non-native languages. Non-syntactic information does not overrule the parsing decisions prompted by syntactic cues. Methodology The experiment used ambiguous relative clauses (RC) in a self-pace...

The article investigates non-native sentence processing and examines the existing scholarly approaches to L2 processing with a population of L3 learners of English, whose native language is Russian. In a self-paced reading experiment, native speakers of Russian and English, as well as (low) intermediate L3 learners of English, read ambiguous relati...

Introduction: the paper investigates cross-linguistic influences between the two previously learnt languages and their effects on classroom L3 acquisition. The study checks the predictions of the existing theories of mechanisms of transfer into the L3 attested for naturalistic learners. The main predictions get confirmed with the population of clas...

John Milton's translations of psalms played an important role in the formation of his individual literary style. Milton understood his literary works as the way to worship by God pronouncing his poetic prayers. He recast the texts of some psalms of David in a poetic form but his translations of psalms in fact were the author's "poetic interpretatio...