A language learner excessively relies on memorized chunks without internalizing grammar rules. Which effect dominates during novel sentence construction?

💡 Explanation

Because rote memorization of chunks bypasses grammatical rule acquisition, the learner struggles to adapt these chunks or create entirely new sentences. This results in limited syntactic generalization ability, therefore, option B is correct, rather than faster processing or error detection which require rule-based understanding.

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