This study focuses on the nature of variable sensitivity to violations of subject-verb number agreement in L2 English by examining Japanese-speaking learners’ performance in a self-paced reading task. The results of the experiment indicated that the learners were insensitive to agreement violations deriving from omission of 3rd person singular (3sg)-s, but were highly sensitive to violations deriving from overuse of 3sg-s. Their sensitivity to this type of violation, however, turned out to be non-categorical in that it was adversely affected by an adverb intervening between the subject and the verb. These results are interpreted to indicate that intermediate learners’ implementation of subject-verb agreement is not based on Agree operations, but on the Vocabulary entry for /s/ which is sensitive to the condition of the string of co-occurring terminal nodes as proposed by Hawkins and Casillas (2008).
2023. Investigation of the Relationship Between Animacy and L2 Learners’ Acquisition of the English Plural Morpheme. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 52:2 ► pp. 675 ff.
Lee, Eun-Kyoung Rosa
2020. AGE OF ONSET, TYPE OF EXPOSURE, AND ULTIMATE ATTAINMENT OF L2 MORPHO-SYNTACTIC SENSITIVITY. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 42:4 ► pp. 801 ff.
MARSDEN, EMMA, SOPHIE THOMPSON & LUKE PLONSKY
2018. A methodological synthesis of self-paced reading in second language research. Applied Psycholinguistics 39:5 ► pp. 861 ff.
Yao, Panpan & Baoguo Chen
2017. Cross-linguistic differences affect late Chinese-English learners on-line processing of English tense and aspect. International Journal of Bilingualism 21:3 ► pp. 268 ff.
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