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Direct linkMcDonald, Janet L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
This research explores if poor grammaticality judgments of late (age of arrival greater than or equal to 12) second language learners often attributed to being beyond the critical period for language acquisition can be better explained by processing difficulties due to (1) low L2 working memory capacity, (2) poor L2 decoding, and/or (3) inadequate…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Age, Memory
