Naoko Witzel

Dr. Naoko Witzel currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and TESOL.

2010 - PhD in Second Language Acquistion and Teaching / Cognitive Science, University of Arizona
2008 - MA in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona
2003 - MA in Linguistics (English), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2002 - MA in English as a Second Language, University of Hawaii
1999 - BA in Linguistics (English), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Deeper than shallow: Evidence for structure-based parsing biases in second-language sentence processing

Witzel, Naoko; Witzel, Jeffrey; Nicol, Janet (Cambridge University PressDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)

This study examines the reading patterns of native speakers (NSs) and high-level (Chinese) nonnative speakers (NNSs) on three English sentence types involving temporarily ambiguous structural configurations. The reading ...