Ultimate attainment in L2 inflection: Performance similarities between non-native and native speakers

• Published in: Lingua Vol. 120; no. 4; pp. 901 - 931
• Main Author: Hopp, Holger
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.04.2010; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adults. Performance, acquisition; Critical Period Hypothesis; Inflection; Linguistic Performance; Linguistics; Morphology Syntax Relationship; Morphosyntax; Native Speakers; Nonnative Speakers; Production and comprehension processes; Psycholinguistics; Psychology of language; Second Language Learning; Second-language acquisition; Second-language processing; Psycholinguistics; Second-language acquisition; Critical period hypothesis; Second-language processing; Morphosyntax; Russian; Inflection; German; English; Non native speaker; Native speaker; Dutch; Second language acquisition

This paper reports four experiments that test whether persistent problems of second-language (L2) learners with L2 inflection, such as case or subject–verb agreement, are the consequence of age-related grammatical impairment of L2 morphosyntax or differences in processing efficiency between natives...