Adult Chinese Spanish L2ers’ acquisition of phi-agreement and temporal concord: The role of morphosyntactic features and adverb/subject-verb distance

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 13; p. 1007828
• Main Authors: Mao, Tiaoyuan, Biondo, Nicoletta, Zheng, Zilong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 22.12.2022
• Subjects: adverb-verb temporal concord; Chinese Spanish L2ers; morphosyntax; processing mechanisms; Psychology; self-paced reading; subject-verb agreement; processing mechanisms; adverb-verb temporal concord; subject-verb agreement; morphosyntax; Chinese Spanish L2ers; self-paced reading

While phi-agreement and concord are suggested to differ in nature during the first language (L1) acquisition, the acquisition of adverb-verb TC and SV person/number agreement by Chinese Spanish second language (L2) learners has only received limited attention. The current study examined morphosyntac...