Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity

Can native competence be achieved in a second language? Here, we focus on the Language Distance Hypothesis that claims that early and proficient bilinguals can achieve native competence for grammatical properties shared by their two languages, whereas unshared grammatical properties pose a challenge...

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Main Authors: Gillen Martínez de la Hidalga, Adam Zawiszewski, Itziar Laka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.742127/full