Table 6.

Mean j factors for the AE and SW conditions. N∕A signifies that participants in that group either all scored above 95% correct (adults, SW words) or below 5% correct (3-year-olds, AE sentences). Standard deviations are in parentheses. The numbers of participants with j scores for each group are given in italics.

	L1 adults	7-year-olds	5-year-olds	3-year-olds	L2 adults
AE	2.26 (0.34), 20	2.26 (0.55), 18	2.43 (0.60), 10	N∕A	2.43 (0.48), 11
SW	N∕A	2.98 (0.94), 17	3.36 (0.92), 20	3.43 (0.82), 20	3.42 (0.53), 20