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Age of Onset and Nativelike L2 Ultimate Attainment of Morphosyntactic and Phonetic Intuition
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Abrahamsson, Niclas – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
Research has consistently shown there is a negative correlation between age of onset (AO) of acquisition and ultimate attainment (UA) of either pronunciation or grammar in a second language (L2). A few studies have indeed reported nativelike behavior in some postpuberty learners with respect to either phonetics/phonology or morphosyntax, a result…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Intuition
Implicit and Explicit Measures of Sensitivity to Violations in Second Language Grammar: An Event-Related Potential Investigation
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Tokowicz, Natasha; MacWhinney, Brian – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to investigate the contributions of explicit and implicit processes during second language (L2) sentence comprehension. We used a L2 grammaticality judgment task (GJT) to test 20 native English speakers enrolled in the first four semesters of Spanish while recording both accuracy and ERP data. Because…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Grammar, Task Analysis