We present the results of a study with six Serbo-Croatian-speaking agrammatic patients on a test of inflectional morphology in which subjects judged whether spoken sentences were grammatical or ungrammatical. Sensitivity to two kinds of syntactic features was investigated in these aphasic patients: (1) subcategorization rules for transitive verbs (which must be followed by a noun in the accusat...

Previous research shows that due to non-facilitative first language (L1) transfer, second (L2) speakers do not develop implicit knowledge of certain grammatical structures. Therefore, the present paper investigates whether L1-Sinhala–L2-English could acquire English object pronouns. To achieve this goal, compares data collected via an untimed grammaticality judgment task (untimed GJT) and oral ...

Intuitive judgments of the acceptability of linguistic utterances constitute the primary source of evidence in linguistic theory. However, our understanding of what speakers actually do when they make such judgments is far from complete. Recently, two psycholinguistic studies bearing on this question have become available: Schütze (1996) provides a broad review of the relevant psychological fin...

Abstract This paper tackles the usefulness of comparing L2 learners against native speakers in empirical SLA studies focusing on grammatical aspect. Adapting view that interlanguage grammars should be analysed their own right instead as a deficient form target, we show expressing perspectivity (fulfilled by aspect markers) methodologically complicates analyses Grammaticality Judgment Tasks stud...

We examined the effects of syntactic (tense) violations occurring on regularly versus irregularly inflected verbs using event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Participants read sentences in which the main verb varied in terms of regularity (regular vs. irregular), frequency (high vs. low), and grammaticality (tense violation vs. no tense violation). For regular verbs, we found a reliable N400 e...

Several studies have reported an association between dyslexia and implicit learning deficits. It has been suggested that the weakness in implicit learning observed in dyslexic individuals may be related to sequential processing and implicit sequence learning. In the present article, we review the current literature on implicit learning and dyslexia. We describe a novel, forced-choice structural...

Sensitivity to grammatical gender was investigated in 22 Russian-speaking aphasic patients, compared with young controls. Experiment 1 used a cued shadowing paradigm to assess gender priming (facilitation and/or inhibition of lexical access by a prenominal modifier with congruent, incongruent or neutral gender). Experiment 2 used a grammaticality judgment paradigm with similar stimuli. Normals ...

This study seeks to identify grammatical errors in argumentative essays written by prospective teachers of English as a foreign language the fifth semester college, determine whether students are aware their mistakes, and discover experiences with grammar instruction error correction. We conducted an Error Analysis contrasted results grammaticality judgment test (GJT) assess students’ awareness...