Processing long-distance dependencies

Abstract

___________________________________Christine Sheaii To my parents.viii data. He has been selfless and kind in every respect-time and time again he has placed my research efforts above his own objectives and done so in admirable good humor. My son Sebastian has provided me with the most joyous reprieves from my work and has pouted minimally when I've had to leave him to do work. ABSTRACTIt has long been theorized that, after the so-called critical period has passed, acquiring language becomes a more difficult enterprise. While general differences between adult second language (L2) learners and normally developed child (L1) acquirers have been more or less empirically established, a strand of recent L2 accounts