Overall results across different subject conditions Sample Clauses

Overall results across different subject conditions. When all verbs are considered together, Norwegian university students use S-V agreement accurately in over 90% of the agreement contexts. This suggests that Norwegian learners at a 14 I use the term ‘non-local’ instead of long-distance to cover the condition in which the subject and the verb are separated only by a relative pronoun, university level have acquired the agreement feature, which lends support to the previous claim that functional morphology is indeed acquirable despite its complexity (e.g., Killie 2019a; Vaurula 2012). The accuracy rate, however, varies across subject types, as has previously been observed by other studies (e.g., Xxxxxx 1985; Killie 2019a; Xxxxxx 2013). While conditions in which agreement is local do not seem to create problems for university students (with accuracy rates from 93.3% to 100% with the median value of 96.5%), the conditions in which the subject and the verb are non-adjacent (non-local agreement) seem to be still problematic. An exception to this generalization is conjoined subjects which show the lowest accuracy rate (59.1%) among all the subject conditions although the token rate for this category is extremely low, constituting only 2% of all agreement contexts (44 out of 2125 obligatory contexts).