More individual differences in language attainment: How much do adult native speakers of English know about passives and quantifiers?

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2080-2094

  Street, James A ^a   Dabrowska, Ewa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

English passive construction; Individual differences; Linguistic competence; Linguistic performance; Sentence comprehension; Universal quantification

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952425139     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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