Variation in the processing of grammatical norm violations

Abstract So far, processing studies on grammatical norm violations (GNVs) in Dutch (i.e. als ‘as’ comparatives) have mainly focused general differences between GNVs and their ungrammatical counterparts. The present study is the first to also systematically investigate between-participant between-construction variation of GNVs, using a self-paced reading task. Age educational level were investigated as potential sources variation, was assessed by including three that vary amount prescriptive attention they receive society. Results indeed showed influenced age participants. Moreover, different results obtained for violations. Based these results, we conclude it very important take into account participants constructions when studying GNVs.