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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
Juffs, Alan – Second Language Research, 2005
Adult learners of English as a second language who speak Chinese (n = 30), Japanese (n = 28) or Spanish (n = 46) as a first language (L1), and a comparison group of native speakers (n = 22) read sentences that contain: (a) ungrammatical "wh"-extractions that violate island constraints; and (b) grammatical long-distance Subject and Object…
Descriptors: Verbs, Sentences, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
