In One Study Described in Your Text, Participants Were Asked

question 162

Multiple Choice

In one study described in your text, participants were asked to judge the grammaticality of English sentences. Participants were native Chinese or Korean speakers who had come to the United States at varying ages. Which of the following probably best approximates the correlation coefficient researchers obtained between the age at which participants entered the United States and a measure of their performance on the grammaticality task?

• A) -.95
• B) -.40
• C) .00
• D) .50

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