Using eye-tracking to study the on-line processing of case-marking information among intermediate L2 learners of German.

This study uses eye-tracking to examine the processing of case-marking information in ambiguous subject- and object-first -questions in German. The position of the lexical verb was also manipulated via verb tense to investigate whether verb location influences how intermediate L2 learners process L2 sentences. Results show that intermediate L2 German learners were sensitive to case-marking information, exhibiting longer processing times on subject-first than object-first sentences, regardless of verb location.