D Sperlich

Datos Biográficos

ID419111
NOMBRED Sperlich
NOMBRESD
APELLIDOSperlich
FIRMASPERLICH D
AFILIACIONESXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
ORCID0000-0003-3165-0869
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • The second language acquisition of reflexives in Japanese by Chinese and Korean learners

    Open AccessD SperlichARTICLEPragmatics & Cognition2026

    This study investigates the second language processing and interpretation of the Japanese reflexive zibun ‘self’ by Chinese and Korean learners of Japanese. This is motivated by the pragmatic influence on anaphoric resolution in these three languages, allowing insight into positive pragmatic transfer regarding both the processing and interpretation of zibun . Guided by the Emergentist Reflexivity Approach, these pragmatic effects are manipulated …

  • Discourse effects in processing Chinese reflexive pronouns

    Yue Zhao, D SperlichARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2026

    Reflexive pronoun resolution in Chinese is well known to be affected by discourse context, as antecedent choice can be guided to a long-distance or local antecedent. How discourse affects the real-time processing of reflexive resolution, however, is not well understood, especially over different reflexive types. This research investigates two reflexives, 自己 zìjǐ ‘self’ and 他自己 tāzìjǐ ‘him/herself’, to understand if discourse influences their proc…

  • Sentence predictability and lexical factors during L2 reading

    Open AccessH Liu, D Sperlich et al.ARTICLELinguistic Approaches to…2026

    Theoretical accounts of second language (L2) reading differ in whether sentence context compensates for inefficiencies in L2 lexical processing (Compensatory Processing Hypothesis) or is constrained by them (Lexical Bottleneck Hypothesis). This eye-tracking study tested these competing predictions in 80 Chinese learners of English by examining how contextual predictability interacts with word frequency and orthographic neighbourhood size, and whe…

  • Parsing factivity and alternating factivity verbs

    D Sperlich, Hong Liu et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Processes2026Referencias: 38

  • Item repetition matters

    H Liu, Adel Chaouch-Orozco et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025Referencias: 55

  • The processing and interpretation of sich in German as a second language by Japanese and Korean learners

    Open AccessD SperlichARTICLEZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft2024

    This study investigates the processing and interpretation of the reflexive pronoun sich by Japanese and Korean learners of German as a second language. This is explored through the emergentist reflexivity approach, which hypothesizes that these learners will utilize their first language pragmatic strategies to bind sich , instead of syntactic binding found in German. Employing psycholinguistic methodology, a self-paced reading experiment is under…

  • Inanimate antecedents of the Japanese reflexive zibun

    Open AccessD Sperlich, Tetsuya KogusuriARTICLELinguistics2024Referencias: 26

    This research sets out to challenge a conventional wisdom in Japanese linguistics, that the reflexive pronoun zibun is unable to take an inanimate antecedent. Through careful presentation of the data, including corpus sources, it is unequivocally demonstrated that the reflexive use of zibun can indeed overcome the animacy constraint and be anteceded by an inanimate antecedent, without any personification present. This has specific theoretical con…