Behaviorally, early bilinguals performed similar to natives (data from Díaz et al., 2011 ) in all sentence types, although they showed a trend toward poorer performance in the object-verb agreement violations.
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Electrophysiological Correlates of Second-Language Syntactic Processes Are Related to Native and Second Language Distance Regardless of Age of Acquisition.
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For the object-verb agreement violations, both groups displayed a similar broad positivity between 150 and 350 ms that was followed by a broad negativity between 400 and 500 ms in late learners and by a marginally significant positivity between 700 and 900 ms in early bilinguals.