Table 3.
Mean percentages of correct responses of natives, early bilinguals, and late L2 learners for each experimental condition.
| Sentence type | Natives | Early bilinguals | Late L2 learners |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grammatical | 95.10 (4.57) | 95.38 (3.51) | 81.34 (8.39) |
| Subject-verb agreement violation | 91.77 (15.41) | 98.07 (2.72) | 76.73 (13.78) |
| Ergative case violation | 95.20 (5.04) | 95.76 (4.71) | 74.23 (7.93) |
| Grammatical object | 93.95 (5.70) | 95.00 (5.20) | 82.50 (10.30) |
| Object-verb agreement violation | 92.91 (7.46) | 88.65 (5.16) | 70.00 (15.27) |
| Total | 93.78 (7.63) | 94.57 (2.69) | 76.96 (6.34) |
Standard deviations are in parentheses. The data from a group of native listeners (Díaz et al., 2011) is shown for the sake of comparison.