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Why non-native speakers sometimes outperform native speakers in agreement processing

Eun-Kyoung Rosa Lee; Colin Phillips · 2022 · Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

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Abstract It is well-known that native English speakers sometimes erroneously accept subject-verb agreement violations when there is a number-matching attractor (e.g., *The key to the cabinets were…). Whether bilinguals whose L1 lacks…

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Metadata source: Crossref · DOI 10.1017/s1366728922000414