Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

This study reports one eye-tracking and one sentencecompletion study investigating the antecedent biases ofTurkish-speaking L2 speakers of English, for anaphor it anddeixis this. Our results show L2 speakers displayed native-like sensitivity to the type of antecedents while using it andthis in sentence completion, but this sensitivity was notreplicated in our online reading experiment. This showslimitations in L2 speakers’ use of information in onlinereading, and poor performance in making use of pragmaticchanges in context to track the antecedents of it and this.