Lectal acquisition and linguistic stereotype formation 243Table 13. Results for Argentinean for age group 6-7
6-7 Frequency Percentage
Correct 18 36.0
Germany 6 12.0
France 4 8.0
England 12 24.0
Mexico 7 14.0
USA 3 6.0
Total 50 100.0Table 14. Results for Argentinean for age group 8-9
8-9 Frequency Percentage
Correct 34 68.0
Germany 4 8.0
France 5 10.0
England 1 2.0
Mexico 5 10.0
USA 1 2.0
Total 50 100.0Table 15. Results for Argentinean for age group 12-13
12-13 Frequency Percentage
Correct 48 96.0
France 1 2.0
Mexico 1 2.0
Total 50 100.0Pushing the question further, how readily will children know when a
speaker is native or a foreigner? Tables 10 to 11 list the results for the pe-
ninsular Spanish speaker across the three age groups. 86 percent of the
youngest children knew when a speaker is not a foreigner. By keeping track
of the wrong choices we can also tell where the children who thought the
speaker had a different origin believed the speaker was actually from: in the
case of the youngest children, the peninsular accent was erroneously attri-