ABSTRACT
Input processing (IP) is concerned with the situations, the reason being that acquisition is, to a certain degree, a by-product of comprehension. IP makes a number of claims about what guides learners’ processing of linguistic data in the input as they are engaged in comprehension. The underlying features of lo prohibit it from being taken as a subject in Italian, and presumably this would happen in Spanish as second language for these learners. The learner might incorrectly reparse the sentence to mean “the parent scolded the child” and send information to the internal processors that the language has OVS structures. Learners are then asked to indicate whether the action occurred in the past is happening or happens everyday or is going to/will happen in the future. Learners are more likely to process meaningful grammatical markers before nonmeaningful grammatical markers.
