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Direct linkKarina Tachihara; Adele E. Goldberg – Language Learning, 2025
Adults learning a new language tend to judge unconventional utterances more leniently than fluent speakers do; ratings on acceptable utterances, however, tend to align more closely with fluent speakers. This asymmetry raises a question as to whether unconventional utterances can be statistically preempted by conventional utterances for adult…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Learning, Sentences, Undergraduate Students
