This study investigates whether intermediate Japanese learners of English (JLE) show any variability in sensitivity to the overuse of 3rd person singular (3sg) -s and if they do, what the causes may be. The results of the experiment indicate that JLE do exhibit variability: JLE showed sensitivity to ungrammaticality caused by a discrepancy in person features between subjects and verbs. In addition, they were sensitive to number feature disagreement when the plurality of subjects was expressed syntactically, namely, by using the conjunction and (e.g., Tim and Paul), by the demonstrative these and by a numeral quantifier (e.g., these two secretaries). However, they were not sensitive to such disagreement when subjects were marked only by plural -s (e.g., The chefs). Based on these results, we suggest that the failure of JLE to use 3sg -s may not lie in the difficulty of subject–verb agreement, but in the detection of the number feature of sentential subjects. We suggest that intermediate JLE have problems both with the number feature at the lexicon/syntax level and with its morphological mapping at the level of morphology.
2022. Paradigmatic Uniformity: Evidence from Heritage Speakers of Spanish. Languages 7:1 ► pp. 14 ff.
LAGO, SOL & CLAUDIA FELSER
2018. Agreement attraction in native and nonnative speakers of German. Applied Psycholinguistics 39:3 ► pp. 619 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.
Mao, Tiaoyuan, Nicoletta Biondo & Zilong Zheng
2022. Adult Chinese Spanish L2ers’ acquisition of phi-agreement and temporal concord: The role of morphosyntactic features and adverb/subject-verb distance. Frontiers in Psychology 13
Rattanasak, Sonthaya, Nattama Pongpairoj & Kiel Christianson
2024. Effects of working memory capacity and distance-based complexity on agreement processing: a crosslinguistic competition account. Applied Linguistics Review 15:3 ► pp. 1151 ff.
Reifegerste, Jana
2021. The effects of aging on bilingual language: What changes, what doesn't, and why. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 24:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
2020. Effects of chronological age on native and nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from subject-verb agreement in German. Journal of Memory and Language 111 ► pp. 104083 ff.
Spinner, Patti & Sehoon Jung
2018. PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION IN PROCESSABILITY THEORY. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 40:2 ► pp. 295 ff.
Tamura, Yu
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.
Tamura, Yu
2023. Is cats one word or two? L2 learners’ processing of number marking in English from the viewpoints of form–meaning mapping. Second Language Research
2019. Japanese EFL learners’ sentence processing of conceptual plurality: An analysis focusing on reciprocal verbs. Applied Psycholinguistics 40:1 ► pp. 59 ff.
2023. Rule-based or efficiency-driven processing of expletive there in English as a foreign language. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 61:4 ► pp. 1577 ff.
VanPatten, Bill, Gregory D. Keating & Michael J. Leeser
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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