There was, however, a numerical trend of this effect, which can be observed at the critical verb region in both groups, showing a larger reading time difference between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences with a number-specified determiner compared to a bare determiner (L1: 20 ms vs 8 ms respectively; L2: 105 ms vs 59 ms respectively).
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Determiner-Number Specification and Non-Local Agreement Computation in L1 and L2 Processing.
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While the relevant L2 comparison did not reach statistical significance, the Chinese group did show numerical trends that were in the same direction as the L1 group.