Table 1.
Subjective proficiency scores (scale: 1 = very poor to 7 = fluent) and subject demographics for the trilinguals in Experiments 1–3.
| Trilinguals | n | Age | Language | Subjective proficiency scores |
First contact | Years of experience | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speaking | Listening | Reading | Writing | Overall | ||||||
| Experiment 1: German–English–Dutch (GED) | 30 | 23.2 | German | 6.9 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 22.9 |
| English | 4.4 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 4.4 | 5.0 | 9.4 | 12.4 | |||
| Dutch | 4.8 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 4.7 | 5.3 | 19.1 | 3.7 | |||
| Experiment 2: Chinese–English–Malay (CEM) | 24 | 21.8 | Chinese | 6.6 | 6.6 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 1.6 | 18.4 |
| English | 5.3 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 3.7 | 17.0 | |||
| Malay | 3.8 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.6 | 14.3 | |||
| Experiment 3: Uyghur–Chinese–English (UCE) | 32 | 22.4 | Uyghur | 6.3 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 22.1 |
| Chinese | 5.2 | 6.3 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 8.7 | 14.1 | |||
| English | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 15.2 | 7.3 | |||