We conducted a visual world eye-tracking experiment with highly proficient Spanish-English bilingual adults to investigate the effects of relative language dominance, operationalized Bayesian zero-inflated spatio-temporal modelling of scrub typhus data in Korea, 2010-2014 as a continuous, multidimensional variable, on the time course of relative clause processing in the first-learned language, Spanish.We found that participants exhibited two distinct processing preferences: a semantically driven preference to assign agency to referents of lexically animate noun phrases and a syntactically driven preference to interpret relative clauses as subject-extracted.Spanish dominance was found to exert a distinct influence on each of these preferences, gradiently attenuating the semantic preference while gradiently An approach for urban agglomerations integration evaluation based on multivariate big data: case of the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration exaggerating the syntactic preference.
While these results might be attributable to particular properties of Spanish and English, they also suggest a possible generalization that greater dominance in a language increases reliance on language-specific syntactic processing strategies while correspondingly decreasing reliance on more domain-general semantic processing strategies.