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. 2016 Feb 12;7:133. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00133

Table 4.

Two-sample t-test comparisons on the mean percentages of correct responses for each experimental condition.

Sentence type Early bilinguals vs. natives Late L2 learners vs. natives Early bilinguals vs. late L2 learners
Grammatical t(35) < 1 t(35) = 6.49, p < 0.001 t(24) = 5.56, p < 0.001
Subject- verb agreement violation t(35) = 1.45, p > 0.05 t(35) = 2.93, p < 0.05 t(24) = 8.41, p < 0.001
Ergative case violation t(35) < 1 t(35) = 9.84, p < 0.001 t(24) = 5.47, p < 0.001
Grammatical object t(35) < 1 t(35) = 4.37, p < 0.001 t(24) = 3.90, p < 0.001
Object-verb agreement violation t(35) = 1.82, p = 0.076 t(35) = 6.16, p < 0.001 t(24) = 4.17, p < 0.001

All groups of participants were compared to each other in pairs. The data from a group of native listeners (Díaz et al., 2011) are analyzed for the sake of comparison.