Late L2ers can acquire grammatical features that do not occur in their L1: Evidence from the effect of animacy on verb agreement in L1 Chinese

Second language (L2) learners often have persistent difficulty with agreement between the number of the subject and the number of the verb. This study tested whether deviant L2 verb number agreement reflects maturational constraints on acquiring new grammatical features or resource limitations that...

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Published in:	Memory & cognition Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 538 - 553
Main Author:	Lempert, Henrietta
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01.05.2016 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Accuracy Adolescent Adult Age Age Factors Age of acquisition Age of arrival Agreements Animacy Behavioral Science and Psychology China Chinese languages Cognitive Psychology College students Explicit knowledge French as a second language Gender Grammar Grammatical agreement Grammatical categories Grammatical number Grammatical subject Humans Hypotheses Language Memory Memory, Short-Term - physiology Middle Aged Morphology Multilingualism Ontario Psycholinguistics Psychology Researchers Scores Second language learning Sequences Syntax Undergraduate students Verbs Young Adult Speech production Psycholinguistics Syntax–semantics interface Bilingualism Working memory
ISSN:	0090-502X, 1532-5946
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